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EBOOK Aristocracy and its Enemies in the Age of Revolution
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191609718
EAN: 0AD10C9AEB
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Stron: 384
Data wydania: 2009
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Since time immemorial Europe had been dominated by nobles and nobilities. In the        eighteenth century their power seemed better entrenched than ever. But in 1790 the        French revolutionaries made a determined attempt to abolish nobility entirely.          'Aristocracy' became the term for everything they were against, and the nobility of        France, so recently the most dazzling and sophisticated elite in the European world,        found itself persecuted in ways that horrified counterparts in        othercountries.Aristocracy and its Enemies traces the roots of the attack on        nobility at this time, looking at intellectual developments over the preceding        centuries, in particular the impact of the American Revolution. It traces the steps        by which French nobles were disempowered and persecuted, a period during which large        numbers fled the country and many perished or were imprisoned.In the end abolition        of the aristocracy proved impossible, and nobles recovered much of their property.          Napoleon set out to reconcile the remnants of the old nobility to the consequences        of revolution, and created a titled elite of his own. After his fall the restored        Bourbons offered renewed recognition to all forms of nobility. But nineteenth        century French nobles were a group transformed and traumatized by the revolutionary        experience, and they never recovered their old hegemony andprivileges. As William        Doyle shows, if the revolutionaries failed in their attempt to abolish nobility,        they nevertheless began the longer term process of aristocratic decline that has        marked the last two centuries.

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