| Histoire de La Revolution Francaise - Volume 10 Contributor(s): Blanc, Louis (Author) |
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ISBN: 1108035159 ISBN-13: 9781108035156 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $58.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Language: French Published: November 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | History & Theory - General - History | Europe - General |
| Series: Cambridge Library Collection - European History |
| Physical Information: 1.13" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.40 lbs) 506 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Louis Blanc (1811-82) was a French historian and politician whose writings had a considerable influence on the development of French socialism. In his famous Organisation du travail (1839) he called for social reform by action of the State, an unusual position at the time. As a member of the provisional government established after the 1848 Revolution, he campaigned for workers' rights, advocating the creation of cooperative workshops. His twelve-volume Histoire de la R volution Fran aise (1847-62), most of which he wrote while in exile in England, combines years of thorough research with Blanc's characteristic socialist and republican enthusiasm. Volume 10, first published in 1858, focuses on the Reign of Terror (1793-4), inaugurated by political tensions between the Girondins and the Jacobins and led by Robespierre. It covers the many executions conducted following the law of 22 Prairial, which extended the power of the Revolutionary Tribunal. |
