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Paperback The Sans-Culottes Book

ISBN: 0691007829

ISBN13: 9780691007823

The Sans-Culottes

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A riveting portrait of the radical and militant partisans who changed the course of the French Revolution

A phenomenon of the preindustrial age, the sans-culottes--master craftsmen, shopkeepers, small merchants, domestic servants--were as hostile to the ideas of capitalist bourgeoisie as they were to those of the ancien r gime that was overthrown in the first years of the French Revolution. For half a decade, their movement exerted a powerful control over the central wards of Paris and other large commercial centers, changing the course of the revolution. Here is a detailed portrait of who these people were and a sympathetic account of their moment in history.

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A brilliant study of the revolutionary masses in action

The French Revolution (1789-1799) was the defining moment of the history of the modern Western world and its impact has been felt across the globe since that time. To some, it is associated not only with the start of the modern era in which we reside, but also with the rights of man, modern democracy, secularism & rationalism, for others it is the very abomination that has led to the masses questioning & rising against...

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