Policing Public Opinion In The French Revolution
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Author |
: Charles Walton |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 349 |
Release |
: 2009-02-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199710010 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199710015 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis Policing Public Opinion in the French Revolution by : Charles Walton
In the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, French revolutionaries proclaimed the freedom of speech, religion, and opinion. Censorship was abolished, and France appeared to be on a path towards tolerance, pluralism, and civil liberties. A mere four years later, the country descended into a period of political terror, as thousands were arrested, tried, and executed for crimes of expression and opinion. In Policing Public Opinion in the French Revolution, Charles Walton traces the origins of this reversal back to the Old Regime. He shows that while early advocates of press freedom sought to abolish pre-publication censorship, the majority still firmly believed injurious speech--or calumny--constituted a crime, even treason if it undermined the honor of sovereign authority or sacred collective values, such as religion and civic spirit. With the collapse of institutions responsible for regulating honor and morality in 1789, calumny proliferated, as did obsessions with it. Drawing on wide-ranging sources, from National Assembly debates to local police archives, Walton shows how struggles to set legal and moral limits on free speech led to the radicalization of politics, and eventually to the brutal liquidation of "calumniators" and fanatical efforts to rebuild society's moral foundation during the Terror of 1793-1794. With its emphasis on how revolutionaries drew upon cultural and political legacies of the Old Regime, this study sheds new light on the origins of the Terror and the French Revolution, as well as the history of free expression.
Author |
: Mary Wollstonecraft |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 550 |
Release |
: 1794 |
ISBN-10 |
: OSU:32435017640152 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution by : Mary Wollstonecraft
Author |
: Charles Walton |
Publisher |
: OUP USA |
Total Pages |
: 349 |
Release |
: 2009-02-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780195367751 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0195367758 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Policing Public Opinion in the French Revolution by : Charles Walton
In the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, French revolutionaries proclaimed the freedom of speech, religion, and opinion. Censorship was abolished, and France appeared to be on a path towards tolerance, pluralism, and civil liberties. A mere four years later, the country descended into a period of political terror, as thousands were arrested, tried, and executed for crimes of expression and opinion.In Policing Public Opinion in the French Revolution, Charles Walton traces the origins of this reversal back to the Old Regime. He shows that while early advocates of press freedom sought to abolish pre-publication censorship, the majority still firmly believed injurious speech--or calumny--constituted a crime, even treason if it undermined the honor of sovereign authority or sacred collective values, such as religion and civic spirit.With the collapse of institutions responsible for regulating honor and morality in 1789, calumny proliferated, as did obsessions with it. Drawing on wide-ranging sources, from National Assembly debates to local police archives, Walton shows how struggles to set legal and moral limits on free speech led to the radicalization of politics, and eventually to the brutal liquidation of "calumniators" and fanatical efforts to rebuild society's moral foundation during the Terror of 1793-1794.With its emphasis on how revolutionaries drew upon cultural and political legacies of the Old Regime, this study sheds new light on the origins of the Terror and the French Revolution, as well as the history of free expression.
Author |
: Dale Van Kley |
Publisher |
: Stanford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 460 |
Release |
: 1995-04-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780804788168 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0804788162 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis The French Idea of Freedom by : Dale Van Kley
“The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen of 1789” is the French Revolution’s best known utterance. By 1789, to be sure, England looked proudly back to the Magna Carta, the Petition of Right, and a bill of rights, and even the young American Declaration of Independence and the individual states’ various declarations and bills of rights preceded the French Declaration. But the French deputies of the National Assembly tried hard, in the words of one of their number, not to receive lessons from others but rather “to give them” to the rest of the world, to proclaim not the rights of Frenchmen, but those “for all times and nations.” The chapters in this book treat mainly the origins of the Declaration in the political thought and practice of the preceding three centuries that Tocqueville designated the “Old Regime.” Among the topics covered are privileged corporations; the events of the three months preceding the Declaration; blacks, Jews, and women; the Assembly’s debates on the Declaration; the influence of sixteenth-century notions of sovereignty and the separation of powers; the rights of the accused in legal practices and political trials from 1716 to 1789; the natural rights to freedom of religion; and the monarchy’s “feudal” exploitation of the royal domain.
Author |
: Robert Darnton |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 468 |
Release |
: 1996 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0393314421 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780393314427 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Forbidden Best-sellers of Pre-revolutionary France by : Robert Darnton
Robert Darnton's work is one of the main reasons that cultural history has become an exciting study central to our understanding of the past.
Author |
: Edward James Kolla |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 353 |
Release |
: 2017-10-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107179547 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107179548 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sovereignty, International Law, and the French Revolution by : Edward James Kolla
This book argues that the introduction of popular sovereignty as the basis for government in France facilitated a dramatic transformation in international law in the eighteenth century.
Author |
: Madame de Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine) |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 436 |
Release |
: 1818 |
ISBN-10 |
: OXFORD:N10169222 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution by : Madame de Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine)
Author |
: Alexis de Tocqueville |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 364 |
Release |
: 1856 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105010213986 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Old Regime and the Revolution by : Alexis de Tocqueville
Author |
: Martha Knisely Huggins |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 276 |
Release |
: 1998 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:49015002948553 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Political Policing by : Martha Knisely Huggins
Reconstructing eighty years of history, Political Policing examines the nature and consequences of U.S. police training in Brazil and other Latin American countries. With data from a wide range of primary sources, including previously classified U.S. and Brazilian government documents, Martha K. Huggins uncovers how U.S. strategies to gain political control through police assistance--in the name of hemispheric and national security--has spawned torture, murder, and death squads in Latin America. After a historical review of policing in the United States and Europe over the past century, Huggins reveals how the United States, in order to protect and strengthen its position in the world system, has used police assistance to establish intelligence and other social control infrastructures in foreign countries. The U.S.-encouraged centralization of Latin American internal security systems, Huggins claims, has led to the militarization of the police and, in turn, to an increase in state-sanctioned violence. Furthermore, Political Policing shows how a domestic police force--when trained by another government--can lose its power over legitimate crime as it becomes a tool for the international interests of the nation that trains it. Pointing to U.S. responsibility for violations of human rights by foreign security forces, Political Policing will provoke discussion among those interested in international relations, criminal justice, human rights, and the sociology of policing.
Author |
: David Andress |
Publisher |
: OUP Oxford |
Total Pages |
: 705 |
Release |
: 2015-01-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780191009914 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0191009911 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of the French Revolution by : David Andress
The Oxford Handbook of the French Revolution brings together a sweeping range of expert and innovative contributions to offer engaging and thought-provoking insights into the history and historiography of this epochal event. Each chapter presents the foremost summations of academic thinking on key topics, along with stimulating and provocative interpretations and suggestions for future research directions. Placing core dimensions of the history of the French Revolution in their transnational and global contexts, the contributors demonstrate that revolutionary times demand close analysis of sometimes tiny groups of key political actors - whether the king and his ministers or the besieged leaders of the Jacobin republic - and attention to the deeply local politics of both rural and urban populations. Identities of class, gender and ethnicity are interrogated, but so too are conceptions and practices linked to citizenship, community, order, security, and freedom: each in their way just as central to revolutionary experiences, and equally amenable to critical analysis and reflection. This Handbook covers the structural and political contexts that build up to give new views on the classic question of the 'origins of revolution'; the different dimensions of personal and social experience that illuminate the political moment of 1789 itself; the goals and dilemmas of the period of constitutional monarchy; the processes of destabilisation and ongoing conflict that ended that experiment; the key issues surrounding the emergence and experience of 'terror'; and the short- and long-term legacies, for both good and ill, of the revolutionary trauma - for France, and for global politics.