Before the deluge: public debt, inequality, and the intellectual origins of the French Revolution
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1. Verfasser: Sonenscher, Michael (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton Princeton University Press ©2007
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-402) and index
Ever since the French Revolution, Madame de Pompadour's comment, "Apres moi, le deluge" (after me, the deluge), has looked like a callous if accurate prophecy of the political cataclysms that began in 1789. But decades before the Bastille fell, French writers had used the phrase to describe a different kind of selfish recklessness--not toward the flood of revolution but, rather, toward the flood of public debt
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1. Facing the Future; 2. Montesquieu and the Idea of Monarchy; 3. Morality and Politics in a Divided World; 4. Industry and Representative Government; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (x, 415 pages)
ISBN:1282129783
1400827701
9781282129788
9781400827701

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