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Citizens: A Chronicle of The French Revolution
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The appearance of this book is certain to be one of the main publishing events of the bicentennial year of the French Revolution. It blends gritty details about everyday life with an old-fashioned, dramatic narrative form. Among other things, Schama argues that the Old Regime fell not because it was stagnant but because it was moving too fast. Unlike Marxists and "new historians," Schama stresses the importance of individual events and people. He detects the emergence of a patriotic culture of citizenship in the decades preceding 1789 and explains how citizenship came to be a public expression of an idealized family during the Revolution. One criticism: there are no footnotes citing sources. Despite this flaw, Schama's book will please scholars and a wide general readership.
- Thomas J. Schaeper, St. Bonaventure Univ., N.Y.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
- Thomas J. Schaeper, St. Bonaventure Univ., N.Y.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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YA-- This well-written, thoroughly documented book should be on every high-school library shelf. It explains the self-destructive, bloody orgy that occurred in France but not in England or Prussia, countries in similar states of poverty and with similarly deprived, disenfranchised populaces. Schama theorizes that the cause of France's revolution lies in the self-deception of the ruling intelligentsia, who believed that they could make a Utopian France by allowing controlled violence, murder, and the destruction of property in the name of liberty, and all to exist simultaneously with good government. Schama presents Talleyrand, Lafayette, and others with more understanding than they are given in most histories, setting them amidst a web of violence of their own making. This book speaks to today's world, as nations strive to move from despotism to democracy. A more modern view of these same problems is found in Z. Brzezinski's The Grand Failure (Scribners , 1989) .
-Barbara Batty, Port Arthur I.S.D., TX
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
-Barbara Batty, Port Arthur I.S.D., TX
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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'Citizens' is written in a narrative style that gives life to a fascinating period in human history. The detailed descriptions of contemporary issues in art, literature and politics is a new feature in a description of the French Revolution.
In what is a novel approach to the history of the Revolution, Simon Schama devotes almost half of his work to a description of the Ancien Regime, including a very vivid glimpse into the lives of the Peers of the kingdom. By doing this his desciption of the lives of ordinary Frenchmen and Frenchwomen is not as satisfactory. He does, however, re-create the importance of the ordinary people in the lead-up to the Fall of Bastille, as well as the 'radical' phase of the Revolution.
The events surrounding the Fall of Bastille are well described with the effect that the reader feels part of the amazing and rapid changes of 1788-1790.
The period from the ratification of the Constitution of 1791 to the coup of August 10, 1792, is one of the most interesting and crucial turn of the Revolution. 'Citizens' descibes the rise of the republican movement excellently. The uncertainties of the time are shown vividly.
The feeling of destiny which marked the period of the beginnings of the First Republic, and its lead-up to the terror of the Committee of Public Safety, is seen both through the forceful and patriotic perspective of the revolutionaries, as well as the human and moderate eyes of those opposed to the radical solutions of this phase of the Revolution.
This is, however, where the narrative suffers. Schama's description of the Terror is emotional and filled with implicit and explicit condemnation. Although this is a natural reaction to the excesses of the period, it is a result of the benefit of hidsight. The National Convention was at the time genuinely trying to create a better system of government and the events of 1793-94 should be viewed through the eyes of the contemporaries. This is not to say, as the revolts in the Provinces show, that at the time there were no people opposed to the Terror.
Unfortunately, the inspired narrative ends with the fall of Robespierre. Although undoubtedly the intention of the author in pointing out how the Revolution made a full circle back to to tyranny, this is a sad result for those wanting to see how the Revolution lead on to the rise of Napoleon. Without this link-up the many important changes which originated during the Revolution and outlasted it are not given their due credit. The Revolution, after all, went on for another five years after the end of Terror.
Overall, 'Citizens' is an excellent book for those who wish to see the French Revolution through human eyes and in splendid detail. Anyone wanting a glimpse at the glamour of the Ancien Regime at its last, and Enlightenment philosophy in action, should definitely take the time to read 'Citizens'.
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Schama brings great light to bear on an immensely complicated and fascinating series of events that constituted the Revolution.Written in the form of a good novel it is immensely engaging and the opposite to dry,arid history.The most important thing Schama does is disabuse us of stale,trite opinions as to how and why the Revolution happened. The incredible complexity and cast of characters is simply stunning-it is an amazing story as to what actually happened and even more amazing when you realise that Louis-far from being a despot was himself an enlightened and intelligent man but vacillated at crucial moments-he could have saved his monarchy but instead a new nation was formed almost on an ad hoc basis as the members of the self styled assembly took power for themselves and then didn't know what to do once they got it! This is a great piece of History writing on a fascinating subject-it has certainly prompted me to read more books on this pivotal event.
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In 1830, Tocqueville after his american journey wrote:In the future,two countries are doomed to share the world domination,United states and Russia.American people who has to make its ways through an hostile Nature, use freedom as mean for its domination.Russia which has to fight against its own people use bondage. Atfter reading this marvellous book,it appears to me that Schama draw the line between two revolutions. The first one is the freedom revolution the second one is the bondage revolution. The first revolution was dedicated to freedom, like its little american sister.Its goal was to achieve the world domination.To do that Revolution needs Unity.And the only one in France at this moment who symbolized unity and could achieve it was the King.Actually in the economic fied, Louis XVI pretty much agree with the Adam Smith's theories . But in social and religious matters he had more reservations. Mirabeau, La Fayette and others tried to change the king's feelings.The Prise de la Bastille cleared the way for reforms.The representants of the old feudal order, nobility and church,lost their obstructive power. Left the insider opposition. France since the beginning of the feudal order was a very divided country.From the time were monney was scarce and bartering the usual way to do business, french people don't like the ones who make money.The influx of new money and liberty threatened the " situations acquises" actually the old social order. The second revolution capitalized on this fears. The Rousseau zealots were against the Voltaire's followers.They prefer equality versus Liberty.But they thought in a very animals farm Orwell twist that some are more equal than others.To assure their domination, (in the future their russian bolchevic heirs will mimic them,) they used bondage with its collateral violence. But they have the same goal than their predecessors and they need unity. So they use an abstract concept the General Will easier for its prophets to manipulate than a live person, the king. Napoleon with the same goal, the world domination will unify the two revolutions. He will bring freedom to the other europeans nations through bondage. To my knowledge this exellent book is not translated in France. I guess I understand why? French people in their opinion brought the torch of freedom to the world and they don't like that a foreigner, told them that the truth is a little bit more complicated. Today french people are still divided between Unity an division. The same frenchman who had kissed, hugged and loved his fellow country men after the world cup victory in the soccer game,as soon as he is behind the wheel step on it and hate all the others drivers.
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An Entertaining and Informative Read on this Dark Period
It is fashionable in America to presume that the American Revolution marks the fault line between the dynastic regimes of old and modern governments. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 8. Februar 2000 von Jeffrey A. Veyera
More Right Wing blather about The Cold War
Simon Schama's book, Citezan's has nothing to do with the French Revolution of 1789, and everything to do with the on-going revisionist assualt on the history of the Cold War. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 7. Januar 2000 veröffentlicht
Knockout history!
Citizens is a complete chronicle of the French Revolution with heavy emphasis on the changing values of 18th century society. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 16. Dezember 1999 von Fuad Ramses
Tres Bien
This is the best history book I've read. No writer I know of has been able to be so comprehensive and narratively gripping at once. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 5. Dezember 1999 von Brandon Chitwood
Excellent updated history of the French Revolution
This is the definite volume for students of the French Revolution. Schama is not afraid to take on some of the earlier historians and lambaste them for their obvious condoning of... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 18. September 1999 veröffentlicht
Wonderful account of a bloody time
This is a brilliant account of a bloody time, when the parties in power toppled like dominoes, when men did not hesitate to execute other men in the names of morality and virtue,... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 25. Juli 1999 veröffentlicht
Maybe the best history we have, but perversely incomplete
Rousseau's legacy is one of the most fascinating details of the book. Schama's treatment of a number of other aspects of the Revolution is also exemplary: the economic reforms... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 8. Juni 1999 veröffentlicht
Don't Let The Size Scare You!
I received a copy of Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution as a gift several years ago. I've been interested in the French Revolution since high school, and I used to... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 26. Januar 1999 veröffentlicht
Enthralling
All the reviews heretofore are by readers who are knowledgeable in the history of this period. As a non-historian and someone who far prefers fiction to history or biography, I... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 28. Juli 1998 veröffentlicht
Stands as one of the few truly great historical narratives.
Like Shelby Foote with his three volume "Civil War - A Narrative," Schama has leapt beyond the realm of history into that of literature. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 3. Juni 1998 von Mark Coffey
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