9780271028989-027102898X-The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century: Reassessments and New Approaches

The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century: Reassessments and New Approaches

ISBN-13: 9780271028989
ISBN-10: 027102898X
Edition: 1
Author: Jay M. Smith
Publication date: 2006
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Format: Hardcover 328 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780271028989
ISBN-10: 027102898X
Edition: 1
Author: Jay M. Smith
Publication date: 2006
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Format: Hardcover 328 pages

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The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century: Reassessments and New Approaches (ISBN-13: 9780271028989 and ISBN-10: 027102898X), written by authors Jay M. Smith, was published by Penn State University Press in 2006. With an overall rating of 4.1 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century: Reassessments and New Approaches (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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Historians have long been fascinated by the nobility in pre-Revolutionary France. What difference did nobles make in French society? What role did they play in the coming of the Revolution? In this book, a group of prominent French historians shows why the nobility remains a vital topic for understanding France’s past.The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century appears some thirty years after the publication of the most sweeping and influential “revisionist” assessment of the French nobility, Guy Chaussinand-Nogaret’s La noblesse au dix-huitième siècle. The contributors to this volume incorporate the important lessons of Chaussinand-Nogaret’s revisionism but also reexamine the assumptions on which that revisionism was based. At the same time, they consider what has been gained or lost through the adoption of new methods of inquiry in the intervening years. Where, in other words, should the nobility fit into the twenty-first century’s narrative about eighteenth-century France?The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century will interest not only specialists of the eighteenth century, the French Revolution, and modern European history but also those concerned with the differences in, and the developing tensions between, the methods of social and cultural history.In addition to the editor, the contributors are Rafe Blaufarb, Gail Bossenga, Mita Choudhury, Jonathan Dewald, Doina Pasca Harsanyi, Thomas E. Kaiser, Michael Kwass, Robert M. Schwartz, John Shovlin, and Johnson Kent Wright.
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