A Book of the Day | Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution (3 volumes)

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Synopsis

The Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution is a representative work of the revisionist historiography of the French Revolution, and can also be said to be the finale of the series of the history of the Great Revolution so far. A team of experts led by François Frey and Mona Ozouf, a well-known French historian and representative of revision historiography, comprehensively sorted out and re-evaluated the French Revolution.

The whole book has a profound coherence: the main theme of "criticism" runs through the whole book, breaking the arbitrary theory and deterministic interpretation, restoring historical discourse to the scene, and opening up a new path for political and cultural research.

"No other historical controversy is as fierce and acute as the controversy over the French Revolution." Is the debate over the Revolution over here? Did the Revolution end? This "apparent history of revolutionary politics" is also an excellent starting point.

The form of this book is the first of its kind, called a dictionary, and the entry is the purpose, but it is not simply explained. The book selects 105 keywords as entries, and each entry is presented as a long article, which is very readable. The dictionary consists of five volumes, which are divided into events, characters, systems, concepts, and interpretations. Each entry is followed by an entry, and an index is set at the end of the book for easy reference by the reader. At present, the Chinese translation has been published in three volumes.

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directory

Character Volume Catalog

Babeuf

Barnave

Bonaparte

Brissot

Carnot

Condorcet

Danton

La Fayette

Louis XVI (Louis X.VI.)

Marat

Marie-Antoinette

Mirabeau

Necker

Robespierre

Saint-Just

Sieyès

Emigrés

Enragés

Feuillants

Girondins

Eberites (or Cortlières) (Hébertistes (ou Cordeliers))

Monarchiens

Montagnards

Sans-culottes

Thermidoriens

Institutional Volume Catalog

Armée

Revolutionary parliament (Assemblées révolutionnaires)

Assignats

State property (Biens nationaux)

Calendar (Calendrier)

Clubs et sociétés populaires

Code civil

Comité de salut public

Commune de Paris

Constitution

Constitution civile du clergé

Province (Département)

Revolutionary government (Gouvernement révolutionnaire)

Taxation (Imp t)

Public education (Instruction publique)

Maximum

Religion révolutionnaire

Electoral system (Suffrage)

Conceptual Volume Catalog

Old system (Ancien Régime)

Aristocratie

Centralisation

Counter-Revolution (Contre-Révolution)

Democracy (Démocratie)

人权(Human Rights)

Equality (galité)

Esprit public

Feudalism (Féodalité)

Fraternité

Frontières naturelles

Jacobinisme

Liberty (Liberté)

Enlightenment (Lumières)

Monarchie absolue

Montesquieu

Nation

Physiocrates

Regeneration (Régénération)

Republic (République)

Revolution (Révolution)

American Revolution (Révolution américaine)

Rousseau

Sovereignty (Souveraineté)

Vandalisme

Voltaire

Theoretical materialist position

Political people's position

Promote the article "With the People"

Presenting the "materialist undercurrent" of the past and present