Nobility Reimagined: The Patriotic Nation in Eighteenth-Century France

by Jay M. Smith

Book Overview

The mature nationalism that fueled the French Revolution grew from patriotic sensibilities fostered over the course of a century or more. Jay M. Smith proposes that the French thought their way to nationhood through a process of psychic adjustment premised on the reimagining of nobility, a social category and moral concept that had long dominated the cultural horizons of the old regime. Nobility Reimagined follows the elaboration of French patriotism...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801489490
• ISBN13: 9780801489495
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher