Citizens : a chronicle of the French Revolution : Schama, Simon : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive (original) (raw)

Donated in Honor of Dr. Lionel V. Patenaude

Bibliography: p. 879-906

Includes indexes

Considers the fullest resources of social, cultural, and political history and includes accounts of private and public lives to help see the reality of the revolution

TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Alterations: the France of Louis XVI -- New men -- Blue horizons, red ink -- Absolutism attacked -- The cultural construction of a citizen -- The costs of modernity -- Expectations -- Body politics -- Suicides, 1787-1788 -- Grievances, Autumn 1788-Spring 1789 -- Improvising a nation -- Bastille, July 1789 -- Choices -- Reason and unreason, July-November 1789 -- Acts of faith, October 1789-July 1790 -- Departures, August 1790-July 1791 -- "Marseillaise," September 1791-August 1792 -- Impure blood, August 1792-January 1793 -- Virtue and death -- Enemies of the people? winter-spring 1793 -- "Terror is the order of the day" -- The politics of turpitude -- Chiliasm, April-July 1794