Stuff And Money In The Time Of The French Revolution
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Author |
: Rebecca L. Spang |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 361 |
Release |
: 2015-01-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674745421 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674745426 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis Stuff and Money in the Time of the French Revolution by : Rebecca L. Spang
Winner of the Louis Gottschalk Prize, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies A Financial Times Best History Book of the Year A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year Rebecca L. Spang, who revolutionized our understanding of the restaurant, has written a new history of money. It uses one of the most infamous examples of monetary innovation, the assignats—a currency initially defined by French revolutionaries as “circulating land”—to demonstrate that money is as much a social and political mediator as it is an economic instrument. Following the assignats from creation to abandonment, Spang shows them to be subject to the same slippages between policies and practice, intentions and outcomes, as other human inventions. “This is a quite brilliant, assertive book.” —Patrice Higonnet, Times Literary Supplement “Brilliant...What [Spang] proposes is nothing less than a new conceptualization of the revolution...She has provided historians—and not just those of France or the French Revolution—with a new set of lenses with which to view the past.” —Arthur Goldhammer, Bookforum “[Spang] views the French Revolution from rewardingly new angles by analyzing the cultural significance of money in the turbulent years of European war, domestic terror and inflation.” —Tony Barber, Financial Times
Author |
: Mary Wollstonecraft |
Publisher |
: |
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 |
: William Doyle |
Publisher |
: Oxford Paperbacks |
Total Pages |
: 152 |
Release |
: 2001-08-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780192853967 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0192853961 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction by : William Doyle
Beginning with a discussion of familiar images of the French Revolution, this work looks at how the ancien régime became ancien as well as examining cases in which achievement failed to match ambition.
Author |
: Rebecca L. Spang |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 353 |
Release |
: 2020-01-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674244016 |
ISBN-13 |
: 067424401X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Invention of the Restaurant by : Rebecca L. Spang
Winner of the Louis Gottschalk Prize Winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize “Witty and full of fascinating details.” —Los Angeles Times Why are there restaurants? Why would anybody consider eating alongside perfect strangers in a loud and crowded room to be an enjoyable pastime? To find the answer, Rebecca Spang takes us back to France in the eighteenth century, when a restaurant was not a place to eat but a quasi-medicinal bouillon not unlike the bone broths of today. This is a book about the French revolution in taste—about how Parisians invented the modern culture of food, changing the social life of the world in the process. We see how over the course of the Revolution, restaurants that had begun as purveyors of health food became symbols of aristocratic greed. In the early nineteenth century, the new genre of gastronomic literature worked within the strictures of the Napoleonic state to transform restaurants yet again, this time conferring star status upon oysters and champagne. “An ambitious, thought-changing book...Rich in weird data, unsung heroes, and bizarre true stories.” —Adam Gopnik, New Yorker “[A] pleasingly spiced history of the restaurant.” —New York Times “A lively, engrossing, authoritative account of how the restaurant as we know it developed...Spang is...as generous in her helpings of historical detail as any glutton could wish.” —The Times
Author |
: Madame de Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine) |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 436 |
Release |
: 1818 |
ISBN-10 |
: OXFORD:N10169222 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution by : Madame de Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine)
Author |
: Vanessa R. Schwartz |
Publisher |
: OUP USA |
Total Pages |
: 153 |
Release |
: 2011-10-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780195389418 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0195389417 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis Modern France by : Vanessa R. Schwartz
The French Revolution, politics and the modern nation -- French and the civilizing mission -- Paris and magnetic appeal -- France stirs up the melting pot -- France hurtles into the future.
Author |
: Tom Stammers |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 375 |
Release |
: 2020-06-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108478847 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108478840 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Purchase of the Past by : Tom Stammers
Offers a broad and vivid overview of the culture of collecting in France over the long nineteenth-century.
Author |
: Hippolyte Taine |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 548 |
Release |
: 1885 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105011919250 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis “The” French Revolution by : Hippolyte Taine
Author |
: Alexis de Tocqueville |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 364 |
Release |
: 1856 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105010213986 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Old Regime and the Revolution by : Alexis de Tocqueville
Author |
: Jeremy D. Popkin |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 155 |
Release |
: 2016-07-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781315508924 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1315508923 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Short History of the French Revolution (Subscription) by : Jeremy D. Popkin
This book attempts to introduce students to the major events that make up the story of the French Revolution and to the different ways in which historians have interpreted them. It covers the relationship between France and the United States.