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The French Revolution (Amar Chitra Katha)

Anant Pai
4.15/5 (73 ratings)
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To produce a very short book about a subject on which one has
written at varying lengths before is more of a challenge than it might
seem. We can all think of people who have ‘written the same book’
several times over in different forms; and we all dread becoming like
them. So I have not set out primarily to retell a familiar story, although
anything calling itself an introduction must to some extent do that.
My concern has been much more to discuss why the French Revolution
mattered, and has continued to matter in innumerable ways in the
two centuries since it occurred. The whole story of the Revolution,
both as a series of late eighteenth-century events and as a set of ideas,
images, and memories in the minds of posterity, is a powerful
argument for the importance of history, as well as a striking example
of its complexity. Whether it will remain as relevant for understanding
the twenty-first century as it was for the nineteenth and twentieth
is perhaps, as a Chinese sage is reputed to have observed, too early
to say.
The first time I studied the French Revolution seriously was in my final
year as an undergraduate. It was lit up by the providential appearance
of Norman Hampson’s Social History of the French Revolution. I am not
surprised that it is still in print as its author enters his eightieth year.
Later it was my privilege to be Norman’s colleague at York. In
gratitude for that, and the years of friendship since, I dedicate this
Format:
Kindle Edition
Pages:
32 pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Amar Chitra Katha Pvt Ltd
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
ISBN13:
kindle Asin:
B071LBDB93

The French Revolution (Amar Chitra Katha)

Anant Pai
4.15/5 (73 ratings)
Read Download
To produce a very short book about a subject on which one has
written at varying lengths before is more of a challenge than it might
seem. We can all think of people who have ‘written the same book’
several times over in different forms; and we all dread becoming like
them. So I have not set out primarily to retell a familiar story, although
anything calling itself an introduction must to some extent do that.
My concern has been much more to discuss why the French Revolution
mattered, and has continued to matter in innumerable ways in the
two centuries since it occurred. The whole story of the Revolution,
both as a series of late eighteenth-century events and as a set of ideas,
images, and memories in the minds of posterity, is a powerful
argument for the importance of history, as well as a striking example
of its complexity. Whether it will remain as relevant for understanding
the twenty-first century as it was for the nineteenth and twentieth
is perhaps, as a Chinese sage is reputed to have observed, too early
to say.
The first time I studied the French Revolution seriously was in my final
year as an undergraduate. It was lit up by the providential appearance
of Norman Hampson’s Social History of the French Revolution. I am not
surprised that it is still in print as its author enters his eightieth year.
Later it was my privilege to be Norman’s colleague at York. In
gratitude for that, and the years of friendship since, I dedicate this
Format:
Kindle Edition
Pages:
32 pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Amar Chitra Katha Pvt Ltd
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
ISBN13:
kindle Asin:
B071LBDB93

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