A Socialist History of the French Revolution - Jean Jaurès

A Socialist History of the French Revolution

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Buch | Softcover
288 Seiten
2022 | Abridged edition
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-0-7453-4219-1 (ISBN)
24,90 inkl. MwSt
The classic history of the French Revolution by the assassinated socialist leader, Jean Jaurès
'Tantalizing prose' - TLS



Jean Jaurès was the celebrated French Socialist Party leader, assassinated in 1914 for trying to use diplomacy and industrial action to prevent the outbreak of war. Published just a few years before his death, his magisterial A Socialist History of the French Revolution has endured for over a century as one of the most influential accounts of the French Revolution ever to be published.



Written in the midst of his activities as leader of the Socialist Party and editor of its newspaper, L'Humanité, Jaurès intended the book to serve as both a guide and an inspiration to political activity; even now it can serve to do just that.



Jaurès's verve, originality and willingness to criticise all players in this epic drama make this a truly moving addition to the shelf of great books on the French Revolution. Now available for the first time in paperback, Mitchell Abidor’s abridged translation of Jaurès's original six volumes makes this exceptional work truly accessible to an Anglophone audience.

Jean Jaures (1859-1914) was the leader of the French Socialist Party, which opposed Jules Guesde's revolutionary Socialist Party of France. An antimilitarist, Jaures was assassinated at the outbreak of World War I, and remains one of the main inspirations to the French left. His defining work was A Socialist History of the French Revolution. Mitchell Abidor is a writer and translator living in Brooklyn, USA. Amongst his many works, he is the author of May Made Me. Mitchell Abidor is a writer and translator living in Brooklyn, USA. Amongst his many works, he is the author of May Made Me. Henry Heller is a Professor of History at the University of Manitoba, Canada. He is the author of The Capitalist University (Pluto, 2016), The Birth of Capitalism: A 21st Century Perspective (Pluto, 2011) The Cold War and the New Imperialism: A Global History, 1945-2005 (Monthly Review Press, 2006) and The Bourgeois Revolution in France (Berghahn, 2006).

Introduction by Henry Heller

Translator’s Note

1. Introduction

2. The Causes of the Revolution

3. July 14, 1789

4. National Lands

5. The Revolutionary 'Journées'

6. The Flight to Varennes

7. The Insurrection of August 10, 1792

8. The September Massacres

9. The Battle of Valmy

10. The Trial of the King

11. The Enragés against the High Cost of Living

12. The Revolution of May 31 and June 2, 1793

13. Marat’s Assassination

14. Dechristianization

15. The Dictatorship of Public Safety and the Fight against the Factions

16. The Terror and Fall of Robespierre

17. How Should We Judge the Revolutionaries?

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Einführung Henry Heller
Mitarbeit Kürzung: Mitchell Abidor
Übersetzer Mitchell Abidor
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 150 x 230 mm
Gewicht 350 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Systeme
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
ISBN-10 0-7453-4219-1 / 0745342191
ISBN-13 978-0-7453-4219-1 / 9780745342191
Zustand Neuware
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