France before 1789: The Unraveling of an Absolutist Regime
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France before 1789: The Unraveling of an Absolutist Regime
By (Author) Jon Elster
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
20th February 2023
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
European history
Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions
Political ideologies and movements
944.034
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Paperback
280
Width 156mm, Height 235mm
Description
A masterful new account of old regime France by one of the world's most prominent political philosophers France before 1789 traces the historical origins of France's National Constituent Assembly of 1789, providing a vivid portrait of the ancien regime and its complex social system in the decades before the French Revolution. Jon Elster writes i
Reviews
"[Jon Elster] has managed to plumb the depths of archives and combine that with his penetrating insight into human behaviour. The result is a very different picture of the motivations for the revolution instead of the usual let them eat cake variety of history."---Siddharth Singh, Open Magazine
Author Bio
Jon Elster is the Robert K. Merton Professor of Social Science at Columbia University and honorary professor at the Collge de France. His many books include Securities against Misrule: Juries, Assemblies, Elections; Alexis de Tocqueville: The First Social Scientist; and Ulysses and the Sirens: Studies in Rationality and Irrationality. He lives in Oslo, Norway.
