Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution: Twentieth Anniversary Edition, With a New Preface 9780520931046

When this book was published in 1984, it reframed the debate on the French Revolution, shifting the discussion from the

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Table of contents :
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
1. The Rhetoric of Revolution
2. Symbolic Forms of Political Practice
3. The Imagery of Radicalism
PART II: THE SOCIOLOGY OF POLITICS
4. The Political Geography of Revolution
5. The New Political Class
6. Outsiders, Culture Brokers, and Political Networks
Conclusion: Revolution in Political Culture
Appendix A: Correlation Matrix of Selected Political, Economic, and Demographic Variables
Appendix B: Occupational Analysis of City Councillors in Amiens, Bordeaux, Nancy, and Toulouse
Index

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Politics, Cultur0, and Class in th0 'French Revolution

Politics, Cultur0, and Class in th0 ~rench Revolution

LYNN HUNT TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

UNIVERSITY OF- CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley

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University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California University of California Press, Ltd. London, England © 1984, 2004 by The Regents of the University of California Twentieth anniversary edition 2004 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hunt, Lynn Avery. Politics, culture, and class in the French Revolution I Lynn Hunt2oth anniversary ed. p. cm.lncludes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-o-520-24156-5 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. France-History-Revolution, 178