1789, les emblèmes de la raison

Abstract This book provides a succinct yet up-to-date and challenging approach to the French Revolution of 1789-1799 and its consequences. Peter McPhee provides a...

"""[Historian Allen] recreates in this meticulous and fast-moving posthumous account the events of the pivotal year 1789 in America. It’s a superb distillation of a complex moment ...

Jena philosophy, historicism, and literature energized nineteenth-century European intellectual life. Their key concerns were time and meaning, quintessentiallyRomantic, but they s...

Abstract Every four years, the incoming president of the United States delivers an inaugural address in a tradition that dates back to 1789, with George Washington’s...

This contribution examines the political violence of urban crowds in 1789. It endorses previous contributions that emphasize the importance of subsistence issues for urban consumer...