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The New Regime

Transformations of the French Civic Order, 1789-1820s

By: Isser Woloch

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The New Regime

Transformations of the French Civic Order, 1789-1820s

By: Isser Woloch

Confident that they had broken with a discredited past, French revolutionaries after 1789 referred to pre-revolutionary times as the ancien regime (old regime). The National Assembly proclaimed the sovereignty of the people, grasping the reins of power and asserting the supremacy of law over all other interests. Even as the liberalism of 1789 collapsed into the Terror and then into the Napoleonic dictatorship, a new regime emerged at the juncture of state and civil society. The cycles of recrimination, hatred, and endemic local conflict unleashed by the Terror did not obliterate this new civic order. In this fascinating and wide-ranging study of three turbulent decades in French history, the eminent historian Isser Woloch examines some large questions: How did the French civic order change after 1789? What civic values animated the new regime; what policies did it adopt? What institutions did it establish, and how did they fare when carried into practice? Drawing on a variety of archival sources, Professor Woloch explains shifts in lawmaking and local authority, state intervention in village life, the creation of public primary schools, experiments in public assistance, a cycle of changes in the mechanisms of civil justice, the introduction of felony trials, and above all the imposition of military conscription. Unlike most accounts of the period, The New Regime moves outside Paris in search of the new civic order. Professor Woloch writes: "Imagine approaching a typical French town in 1798 or 1808 - the capital of one of the eighty-odd departments that the National Assembly created by redividing the nation's territory. The spires of a cathedral or the largest parish churches would stillcommand the horizon. But as one moved about the town, one could readily identify its civic institutions: the departmental administration (later the prefecture); the town hall or mairie; the local schools; several new courts or tribunals; the institutions of poor relief such as a

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Napoleon and His Collaborators

The Making of a Dictatorship

By: Isser Woloch

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Napoleon and His Collaborators

The Making of a Dictatorship

By: Isser Woloch

When we think of Napoleon, no names of trusty right-hand men jump to mind. Woloch (history, Columbia U., New York City) sets out to correct this in his study, which introduces the men that aided Napoleon's creation of a dictatorship. He does this through a series of narratives of key events and themes. He concludes with chapters on the routines of governance; difficult issues for Napoleon's liberal servitors of the un-liberal practices of preventive detention and censorship; and what happened to his minions following the Empire's collapse, the Bourbon Restoration, and Napoleon's return from Elba in 1815. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

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Napoleon and His Collaborators

The Making of a Dictatorship

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The Making of a Dictatorship

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The Postwar Moment

Progressive Forces in Britain, France, and the United States after World War II

By: Isser Woloch

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The Postwar Moment

Progressive Forces in Britain, France, and the United States after World War II

By: Isser Woloch

An incisive, comparative study of the development of Post–World War II progressive politics in the United States, Britain, and France After the end of World War II, Britain, France, and the United States were faced with two very different choices: return to the civic order of pre-war normalcy or embark instead on a path of progressive transformation. In this ambitious and original work, Isser Woloch assesses the progressive agendas that crystalized in each of the three allied democracies, tracing their roots in the interwar decades, their development during wartime, the struggles to establish them after the war’s end, and the mixed outcome in each country. A fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, Woloch is a highly regarded scholar who adds the United States to a discussion that is usually focused solely on Europe. His enlightening work successfully argues that the postwar moment deserves a more prominent place in the history of progressive politics.

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Yale University Press

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0300242689

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Jacobin Legacy

The Democratic Movement under the Directory

By: Isser Woloch

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Jacobin Legacy

The Democratic Movement under the Directory

By: Isser Woloch

Professor Woloch shows that Jacobinism survived and forcefully developed into a constitutional party under the conservative Directorial republic. The Jacobin legacy was a mode of political activism—the local political club—and a constellation of attitudes which might be called the "democratic persuasion." By focusing on the nature of this persuasion and the way that it was articulated in the Neo-Jacobin clubs, the author provides a fresh perspective on the history of Jacobinism, and on the fate of the Directorial republic. Originally published in 1970. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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1400871891

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The Postwar Moment

Progressive Forces in Britain, France, and the United States after World War II

By: Isser Woloch

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Progressive Forces in Britain, France, and the United States after World War II

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The Western Experience

To the Eighteenth Century

By: Mortimer Chambers,Theodore K. Rabb

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The Western Experience

To the Eighteenth Century

By: Mortimer Chambers,Theodore K. Rabb

A collection of interpretive essays that can serve as an example of historical writing. It shows and exemplifies how historians struggle and deal with the past, by discussing the various controversies in history such as the Black Athena question. It presents a chronological survey of the history of Western Civilization.

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McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages

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0072565454

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The Western Experience, Volume 1, with Primary Source Investigator and PowerWeb

By: Mortimer Chambers,Theodore K. Rabb,Isser Woloch,Raymond Grew,Lisa Tiersten

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The Western Experience, Volume 1, with Primary Source Investigator and PowerWeb

By: Mortimer Chambers,Theodore K. Rabb,Isser Woloch,Raymond Grew,Lisa Tiersten

The Western Experience offers a thorough, analytical overview of Western civilization, giving students an introduction to the major achievements in Western thought, art, and science as well as the social, political, and economic context for understanding those developments. To demonstrate the connected nature of all histories, these various aspects of history are examined in an integrated way. To help readers develop their reasoning and writing skills, each chapter is constructed to serve as an example of a historical essay: A historical problem is presented and arguments are developed using historical evidence. The ninth edition features many improvements, including the work of Lisa Tiersten in her new chapter on Nineteenth Century Empires.

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0073259993

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Jacobin Legacy

The Democratic Movement under the Directory

By: Isser Woloch

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The Democratic Movement under the Directory

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The New Regime

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Napoleon and His Collaborators

The Postwar Moment

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Jacobin Legacy

Jacobin Legacy

The Postwar Moment

The Postwar Moment

The Western Experience

The Western Experience

The Western Experience, Volume 1, with Primary Source Investigator and PowerWeb

The Western Experience, Volume 1, with Primary Source Investigator and PowerWeb

Jacobin Legacy

Jacobin Legacy

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