Lectures on the French Revolution
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Lectures on the French Revolution

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Lectures on the French Revolution

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The two volumes of his lectures on modern history and on the French Revolution give us in their full ripeness the sum of Acton's historical judgments. History was not to Acton a mere academic pursuit. With that view of history which considers it, beneath the dry light of science, as a series of phenomena capable of detachment from the present, susceptible to separate analysis, he had no sympathy. Still less did he consider history a mere form of literary exposition. The one justification for the study of history was to Acton its value as a guide in the affairs of the every-day world. The present is what it is because of what the past has been. Human development has been a continuous chain of cause and effect. Any course of action in the present must be based upon a knowledge of the way in which things we now do are hedged in, limited by what men have done before us. History thus becomes a great mentor, a schoolmaster of action.

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Publisher
Jazzybee Verlag
Year
2016
ISBN
9783849646134
Topic
History
Subtopic
French History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. I. THE HERALDS OF THE REVOLUTION
  2. II. THE INFLUENCE OF AMERICA
  3. III. THE SUMMONS OF THE STATES-GENERAL
  4. IV. THE MEETING OF THE STATES-GENERAL
  5. V. THE TENNIS-COURT OATH
  6. VI. THE FALL OF THE BASTILLE
  7. VII. THE FOURTH OF AUGUST
  8. VIII. THE CONSTITUTIONAL DEBATES
  9. IX. THE MARCH TO VERSAILLES
  10. X. MIRABEAU
  11. XI. SIEYÈS AND THE CONSTITUTION CIVILE
  12. XII. THE FLIGHT TO VARENNES
  13. XIII. THE FEUILLANTS AND THE WAR
  14. XIV. DUMOURIEZ
  15. XV. THE CATASTROPHE OF MONARCHY
  16. XVI. THE EXECUTION OF THE KING
  17. XVII. THE FALL OF THE GIRONDE
  18. XVIII. THE REIGN OF TERROR
  19. XIX. ROBESPIERRE
  20. XX. LA VENDÉE
  21. XXI. THE EUROPEAN WAR
  22. XXII. AFTER THE TERROR
  23. APPENDIX. THE LITERATURE OF THE REVOLUTION