Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution

Twentieth Anniversary Edition, With a New Preface

Lynn Hunt

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9780520241565
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780520931046
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: European History
• Index: History

When this book was published in 1984, it reframed the debate on the French Revolution, shifting the discussion from the Revolution's role in wider, extrinsic processes (such as modernization, capitalist development, and the rise of twentieth-century totalitarian regimes) to its central political significance: the discovery of the potential of political action to consciously transform society by molding character, culture, and social relations. In a new preface to this twentieth-anniversary edition, Hunt reconsiders her work in the light of the past twenty years' scholarship.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Tables
• List of Plates
• List of Maps
• Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition
• Acknowledgments to the 1984 Edition
• Chronology
• Abbreviations
• Introduction: Interpreting the French Revolution
• PART I: THE POETICS OF POWER
• PART II: THE SOCIOLOGY OF POLITICS
• Conclusion: Revolution in Political Culture
• Appendix A: Correlation Matrix of Selected Political, Economic, and Demographic Variables
• Appendix B: Occupational Analysis of City Councillors in Arniens, Bordeaux, Nancy, and Toulouse
• Index