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In this study Dominick LaCapra addresses the ongoing concern with the application of theory - namely that of literary studies and linguistics - to contemporary historical research and analysis. History and Reading is an attempt to address the concerns of those scholars who either resist theoretical discussions or disavow the use of interdisciplinary study. LaCapra begins with an extensive discussion of the problem of reading and interpretation as it relates to the understanding of history. The focus then moves to two classic texts that serve as case studies: Alexis de Tocqueville's "Old RTgime and the French Revolution" and Michel Foucault's "Folie et dTraison: Histoire de la folie + l'+ge classique" (partially translated into English as "Madness and Civilization"). In the final chapter, LaCapra deals with the problem of rethinking and reconfiguring French studies, suggesting how this discipline could itself profit from the theoretical innovations for which it has been so important a conduit in the last few decades. LaCapra offers sensitive readings of Tocqueville and Foucault, authors who present vastly different narrative strategies and modes of analysis. Looking at these and other theorists whose work addresses the writing and understanding of history, he considers how their distinctive textual practices have transformed standard modes of interpretation and analysis. A distinguished and widely respected European historian, LaCapra offers a sophisticated consideration of how to combine textual analysis with traditional historical practices, and shows how this practice can be brought to bear on French studies and help to shape its future directions
Literature and history. --- History --- Historiography --- History and literature --- History and poetry --- Poetry and history --- Methodology. --- Tocqueville, Alexis de, --- Foucault, Michel, --- France --- Study and teaching. --- Historiography. --- Folie et deraison (Foucault, Michel) --- Ancien regime et la Revolution (Tocqueville, Alexis de) --- Old Regime and the Revolution (Tocqueville, Alexis de) --- Old Regime and the French Revolution (Tocqueville, Alexis de) --- Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique (Foucault, Michel)
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The example of Old Regime France provides a source for many of the ideas about capitalism, modernization, and peasant protest that concern social scientists today. Hilton Root challenges traditional assumptions and proposes a new interpretation of the relationship between state and society.
Peasants --- Land tenure --- History. --- France --- Politics and government. --- Agrarian tenure --- Feudal tenure --- Freehold --- Land ownership --- Land question --- Landownership --- Tenure of land --- Peasantry --- Land use, Rural --- Real property --- Land, Nationalization of --- Landowners --- Serfdom --- Agricultural laborers --- Rural population --- Marks (Medieval land tenure) --- Villeinage --- Land tenure. --- 17th century europe. --- capitalism. --- capitalist development. --- european agriculture. --- european bourgeois. --- european government. --- european history. --- european monarchy. --- european political economics. --- european politics books. --- european state building. --- french bureaucracy. --- french economy. --- french government. --- french history. --- french revolution. --- french war. --- modernization. --- old regime france. --- political science. --- social choice. --- social science professors. --- social scientists books. --- social scientists. --- state and society.
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History. --- History --- Spain --- Spain. --- Arts and Humanities --- medieval history --- dissolution of the old regime --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Espanja --- Spanien --- Hiszpania --- Spanish State --- España --- Estado Español --- Espagne --- Hispania --- Sefarad --- Sepharad --- Shpanye --- Shpanie --- Reino de España --- Kingdom of Spain --- Espainiako Erresuma --- Espanha --- Espanya --- Isupania --- Regne d'Espanya --- Reiaume d'Espanha --- Reino d'Espanya --- Reinu d'España --- Supein --- Dret --- Diplomàtica --- Associacions, institucions, etc. --- Història --- Associacions --- Associacions culturals --- Associacions voluntàries --- Entitats --- Institucions --- Organitzacions --- Associacionisme --- Grups socials --- Voluntariat --- Ciències jurídiques --- Ordenament jurídic --- Règim jurídic --- Sistema jurídic --- Jurisprudència --- Legislació --- España --- Estado Español --- Reino de España --- Espanya (Regne)
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Beginning with the simple question, "Why did audiences grow silent?" Listening in Paris gives a spectator's-eye view of opera and concert life from the Old Regime to the Romantic era, describing the transformation in musical experience from social event to profound aesthetic encounter. James H. Johnson recreates the experience of audiences during these rich decades with brio and wit. Woven into the narrative is an analysis of the political, musical, and aesthetic factors that produced more engaged listening. Johnson shows the gradual pacification of audiences from loud and unruly listeners to the attentive public we know today. Drawing from a wide range of sources--novels, memoirs, police files, personal correspondence, newspaper reviews, architectural plans, and the like--Johnson brings the performances to life: the hubbub of eighteenth-century opera, the exuberance of Revolutionary audiences, Napoleon's musical authoritarianism, the bourgeoisie's polite consideration. He singles out the music of Gluck, Haydn, Rossini, and Beethoven as especially important in forging new ways of hearing. This book's theoretical edge will appeal to cultural and intellectual historians in many fields and periods.
Music --- Music appreciation. --- Music appreciation --- Music, Dance, Drama & Film --- Music History & Criticism, General --- Analytical guides (Music) --- Appreciation of music --- Musical appreciation --- Musical analysis --- Music and society --- History and criticism. --- Social aspects. --- History and criticism --- Social aspects --- Analysis, appreciation --- Analytical guides --- Appreciation --- Instruction and study --- 18th century opera. --- aesthetic factors. --- attentive audience. --- beethoven. --- concert life. --- concerts. --- cultural history. --- engaged listening. --- entertainment. --- gluck. --- gradual pacification. --- haydn. --- hearing. --- imitation. --- intellectual history. --- jacobin ideology. --- musical authoritarianism. --- musical experience. --- napoleon. --- old regime. --- opera. --- paris. --- polite consideration. --- political factors. --- public concerns. --- respectability. --- revolutionary audiences. --- romantic era. --- romanticism. --- rossini. --- social duty. --- studies on the history of society and culture. --- thermidor.
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Enlivened and enriched by Auslander's experiences as a cabinetmaker, this pathbreaking work demonstrates that in post-Revolutionary France, furniture and consumer goods became newly important means of constituting selves, social class, and, perhaps most significantly, the economy and society of the nation itself. The very style of the goods reflected these preoccupations: nineteenth-century bourgeois style was dominated by gendered versions of Old Regime-style furniture, while the working class was offered new furniture designed specifically for its needs. Tastemaking took on a sudden urgency, reflected in the creation of new schools, museums, expositions, libraries, magazines, and books designed to "improve" the taste of producers and consumers alike. As these institutions competed with furniture sellers, a fierce competition sprang up among government bureaucrats, private philanthropists, and distributors to control workers' and consumers' taste. Auslander melds the history of high politics - the formation of the state - with the history of the mundane - furniture - in order to examine how power was consolidated, reproduced, and even resisted in the small objects and gestures of everyday life in France.
Furniture --- Social change --- Politics and culture --- Wood furniture --- Wooden furniture --- Decoration and ornament --- Decorative arts --- House furnishings --- Cabinetwork --- Interior decoration --- Upholstery --- Styles --- Social aspects --- France --- Civilization. --- Politics and government --- Social change. --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- 19th century french culture. --- 19th century french society. --- absolutism. --- aesthetics. --- bourgeois style. --- cabinetmaker. --- consumer culture. --- consumer goods. --- european history. --- france. --- french revolution. --- french society. --- furniture sellers. --- furniture. --- gendered furniture. --- modern france. --- monarchical power. --- national economy. --- old regime style furniture. --- post revolutionary france. --- power. --- productive labor. --- representation. --- social class. --- state formation. --- studies on the history of society and culture. --- style. --- taste making.
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Political moderation is the touchstone of democracy, which could not function without compromise and bargaining, yet it is one of the most understudied concepts in political theory. How can we explain this striking paradox? Why do we often underestimate the virtue of moderation? Seeking to answer these questions, A Virtue for Courageous Minds examines moderation in modern French political thought and sheds light on the French Revolution and its legacy. Aurelian Craiutu begins with classical thinkers who extolled the virtues of a moderate approach to politics, such as Aristotle and Cicero. He then shows how Montesquieu inaugurated the modern rebirth of this tradition by laying the intellectual foundations for moderate government. Craiutu looks at important figures such as Jacques Necker, Madame de Staël, and Benjamin Constant, not only in the context of revolutionary France but throughout Europe. He traces how moderation evolves from an individual moral virtue into a set of institutional arrangements calculated to protect individual liberty, and he explores the deep affinity between political moderation and constitutional complexity. Craiutu demonstrates how moderation navigates between political extremes, and he challenges the common notion that moderation is an essentially conservative virtue, stressing instead its eclectic nature. Drawing on a broad range of writings in political theory, the history of political thought, philosophy, and law, A Virtue for Courageous Minds reveals how the virtue of political moderation can address the profound complexities of the world today.
Moderation --- Political science --- Golden mean --- Mean, Golden --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Political aspects --- History. --- History --- France --- Bro-C'hall --- Fa-kuo --- Fa-lan-hsi --- Faguo --- Falanxi --- Falanxi Gongheguo --- Faransā --- Farānsah --- França --- Francia (Republic) --- Francija --- Francja --- Francland --- Francuska --- Franis --- Franḳraykh --- Frankreich --- Frankrig --- Frankrijk --- Frankrike --- Frankryk --- Fransa --- Fransa Respublikası --- Franse --- Franse Republiek --- Frant︠s︡ --- Frant︠s︡ Uls --- Frant︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Frantsuzskai︠a︡ Rėspublika --- Frantsyi︠a︡ --- Franza --- French Republic --- Frencisc Cynewīse --- Frenska republika --- Furansu --- Furansu Kyōwakoku --- Gallia --- Gallia (Republic) --- Gallikē Dēmokratia --- Hyãsia --- Parancis --- Peurancih --- Phransiya --- Pransiya --- Pransya --- Prantsusmaa --- Pʻŭrangsŭ --- Ranska --- República Francesa --- Republica Franzesa --- Republika Francuska --- Republiḳah ha-Tsarfatit --- Republikang Pranses --- République française --- Tsarfat --- Tsorfat --- Γαλλική Δημοκρατία --- Γαλλία --- Франц --- Франц Улс --- Французская Рэспубліка --- Францыя --- Франция --- Френска република --- פראנקרייך --- צרפת --- רפובליקה הצרפתית --- فرانسه --- فرنسا --- フランス --- フランス共和国 --- 法国 --- 法蘭西 --- 法蘭西共和國 --- 프랑스 --- France (Provisional government, 1944-1946) --- Politics and government --- Philosophy --- Aristotle. --- Benjamin Constant. --- Charter of 1814. --- Constituent Assembly. --- David Hume. --- Directory. --- French Revolution. --- French constitution. --- French political thought. --- Germaine de Stal. --- Jacques Necker. --- Jean-Jacques Rousseau. --- Jean-Joseph Mounier. --- Michel de Montaigne. --- Montesquieu. --- Napoleon Bonaparte. --- Niccol Machiavelli. --- Old Regime. --- Pierre Victor Malouet. --- Plato. --- Stanislas de Clermont-Tonnerre. --- The Spirit of the Laws. --- Trophim-Grard Lally-Tollendal. --- animated moderation. --- bicameralism. --- center. --- commerce. --- complex sovereignty. --- constitutionalism. --- democracy. --- equality. --- extreme center. --- faith. --- fanaticism. --- immoderate government. --- immoderation. --- liberty. --- limited sovereignty. --- middle way. --- mixed government. --- moderate government. --- moderation. --- monarchiens. --- moral virtue. --- neutral power. --- pluralism. --- political liberty. --- political moderation. --- political reform. --- political theory. --- political virtue. --- politics. --- pouvoir modrateur. --- radical moderates. --- radicalism. --- representative government. --- separation of powers. --- skepticism. --- social order. --- trimming. --- virtue.
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This book is an account of two dimension of state and nation building in France and Spain since the seventeenth century--the invention of a national boundary line and the making of Frenchmen and Spaniards. It is also a history of Catalan rural society in the Cerdanya, a valley in the eastern Pyrenees divided between Spain and France in 1659. This study shuttles between two levels, between the center and the periphery. It connects the "macroscopic" political and diplomatic history of France and Spain, from the Old Regime monarchies to the national territorial states of the later nineteenth century; and the "molecular" history--the historical ethnography--of Catalan village communities, rural nobles, and peasants in the borderland. On the frontier, these two histories come together, and they can be told as one.
Self-determination, National --- National self-determination --- Nationalism --- Nation-state --- Nationalities, Principle of --- Sovereignty --- History. --- Pyrenees --- Cerdaña (Spain and France) --- Catalonia (Spain) --- Roussillon (France : Province) --- France --- Spain --- Espagne --- Espainiako Erresuma --- España --- Espanha --- Espanja --- Espanya --- Estado Español --- Hispania --- Hiszpania --- Isupania --- Kingdom of Spain --- Regne d'Espanya --- Reiaume d'Espanha --- Reino de España --- Reino d'Espanya --- Reinu d'España --- Sefarad --- Sepharad --- Shpanie --- Shpanye --- Spanien --- Spanish State --- Supein --- イスパニア --- スペイン --- Bro-C'hall --- Fa-kuo --- Fa-lan-hsi --- Faguo --- Falanxi --- Falanxi Gongheguo --- Faransā --- Farānsah --- França --- Francia (Republic) --- Francija --- Francja --- Francland --- Francuska --- Franis --- Franḳraykh --- Frankreich --- Frankrig --- Frankrijk --- Frankrike --- Frankryk --- Fransa --- Fransa Respublikası --- Franse --- Franse Republiek --- Frant︠s︡ --- Frant︠s︡ Uls --- Frant︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Frantsuzskai︠a︡ Rėspublika --- Frantsyi︠a︡ --- Franza --- French Republic --- Frencisc Cynewīse --- Frenska republika --- Furansu --- Furansu Kyōwakoku --- Gallia --- Gallia (Republic) --- Gallikē Dēmokratia --- Hyãsia --- Parancis --- Peurancih --- Phransiya --- Pransiya --- Pransya --- Prantsusmaa --- Pʻŭrangsŭ --- Ranska --- República Francesa --- Republica Franzesa --- Republika Francuska --- Republiḳah ha-Tsarfatit --- Republikang Pranses --- République française --- Tsarfat --- Tsorfat --- Γαλλική Δημοκρατία --- Γαλλία --- Франц --- Франц Улс --- Французская Рэспубліка --- Францыя --- Франция --- Френска република --- פראנקרייך --- צרפת --- רפובליקה הצרפתית --- فرانسه --- فرنسا --- フランス --- フランス共和国 --- 法国 --- 法蘭西 --- 法蘭西共和國 --- 프랑스 --- France (Provisional government, 1944-1946) --- Rosselló (France : Province) --- Pyrénées-Orientales (France) --- Cerdagne (Spain and France) --- Cerdanya (Spain and France) --- Pireneus --- Pirineos --- Pirineus --- Pyrenaei Montes --- Pyrene --- Pyrenees (France and Spain) --- Boundaries --- Cerdaña (Spain and France) --- 17th century european history. --- 18th century european history. --- 19th century european history. --- borderland. --- boundary. --- catalan. --- cerdanya. --- counter identity. --- delimitation. --- diplomatic history. --- ethnography. --- europe. --- france. --- french history. --- french revolution. --- identity. --- monarchy. --- nation building. --- national boundary. --- old regime. --- political history. --- property. --- pyrenees. --- resistance. --- rural nobles. --- rural. --- spain. --- spanish history. --- state building. --- territory. --- treaties of bayonne.
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