Children of the Revolution: The French, 1799-1914 (精装)

基本信息出版社:Allen Lane (2008年7月31日)丛书名:Allen Lane History精装:560页正文语种:英语ISBN:0713997605条形码:9780713997606产品尺寸及重量:23.4 x 15.8 x 5.4 cm ; 980 gASIN:0713997605

商品描述内容简介"Children of the Revolution" is a wonderful account of how the French repeatedly tried and failed to come up with a new, stable regime for themselves. For those who lived through the quarter-century from the storming of the Bastille to Napoleon's final defeat, these events left such a profound mark that no subsequent king, emperor or president could ever match up. No regime seemed to be able to establish itself - whether in favour of, or against the Revolution's values - without generating fresh, often murderous opposition. These fratricidal hatreds affected all aspects of French life, and distorted families, religion, art, foreign policy, and education, with each generation of the Revolution's 'children' struggling with deeply divided loyalties. This is a richly enjoyable and surprising book. It reveals a strikingly unfamiliar France: a country with an often-overwhelming gap between Paris and the provinces, in which feminism had its own, tortured history, and which managed to lie at the heart of modernity and yet was agonised by a sense of its fall from former greatness. Robert Gildea ends Children of the Revolution with an account of the opening of the First World War, where France finally - and at a horrific cost - found the unity and sense of national purpose that had eluded it for so long, finally burying the ghosts of the Revolution.作者简介Robert Gildea has spent a lifetime studying modern France. Among his major works are France Since 1945 and The Past in French History. His last book, Marianne in Chains, won the Wolfson Prize for History in 2002. He is Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford.