林·亨特是繼娜塔莉·澤蒙·戴維斯後，新文化史的掌旗者。亨特在本書中，以「家庭羅曼史」指稱集體且無意識的家庭秩序圖像，這種家庭秩序的圖像構成了法國大革命政治理念的基調。亨特藉著討論家庭成員間的關係，闡述這種政治理念；並以家國互喻的方式，陳述十八世紀的法國人視其統治者為父，視其國為家的想法。因此，家庭成員的論述便構成了本書的敘事結構。

This latest work from an author known for her contributions to the new cultural history is a multidisciplinary investigation of the foundations of modern politics. "Family Romance" was coined by Freud to describe the fantasy of being freed from one's family and joining one of higher social standing. Lynn Hunt uses the term broadly to describe the images of the familial order un...(展开全部)

First published in 1980, this book rapidly established itself as the indispensable guide to what brought about the French Revolution, and to the debates of historians about the issue. It combined a full critical account of recent controversies with a fresh interpretation taking stock of where the debate had led. Since 1980 discussion among historians has continued as lively as ...(展开全部)

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Historian Roger Chartier, part of a school now at work refashioning the Annales tradition, analyzes the causes of the French Revolution not simply by investigating its "cultural origins", but by pinpointing the conditions that "made it possible because conceivable". Chartier has set himself two important tasks. First, while acknowledging the seminal contribution of Daniel Morne...(展开全部)

弗朗索瓦・傅勒： 生于1927，卒于1997，卓越的学者和思想家，他的一生享誉无数。前不久，他被评为法兰西学院“不朽的四十位学者”之一。他担任过高等社会科学学院的院长，被国际学术界称为“法国大革命史研究的领军人物”，托克维尔研究专家等等，他的学术影响远远超越了法国，遍及世界，芝加哥大学聘他为“社会思想”教授，他是美国艺术和科学研究院的院士，是哈佛大学和特拉维夫大学的名誉博士，等等。这些荣誉归功于他对法国大革命的研究成就，在这个领域，他几乎是无可替代的巨人，芝加哥社会思想委员会主席耐丹・塔可夫认为“没有任何人能比他更负责任地复活了法国的自由思想”。《思考法国大革命》这本书可以说是他最重要的学术著作。

The French Revolution is an historical event unlike any other. It is more than just a topic of intellectual interest: it has become part of a moral and political heritage. But after two centuries, this central event in French history has usually been thought of in much the same terms as it was by its contemporaries. There have been many accounts of the French Revolution, and th...(展开全部)

Between 1793 and 1794, thousands of French citizens were imprisoned and hundreds sent to the guillotine by a powerful dictatorship that claimed to be acting in the public interest. Only a few years earlier, revolutionaries had proclaimed a new era of tolerance, equal justice, and human rights. How and why did the French Revolution's lofty ideals of liberty, equality, and frater...(展开全部)

乔治•鲁德（1910—1993），英国马克思主义史学家。受法国年鉴学派影响，主张“自下而上”的历史研究，对于法国大革命史与近代欧洲社会史有精深的研究，师从法国大革命史研究的名家乔治•勒费弗尔，由于其左派身份，一生经历坎坷，漂泊不定，依然笔耕不辍。著有《法国大革命中的群众》《历史中的群众》《革命中的欧洲（1783-1815）》《18世纪的巴黎与伦敦》等专著，大多被誉为经典。

乔治•鲁德（1910—1993），英国马克思主义史学家。受法国年鉴学派影响，主张“自下而上”的历史研究，对于法国大革命史与近代欧洲社会史有精深的研究，师从法国大革命史研究的名家乔治•勒费弗尔，由于其左派身份，一生经历坎坷，漂泊不定，依然笔耕不辍。著有《法国大革命中的群众》《历史中的群众》《革命中的欧洲（1783-1815）》《18世纪的巴黎与伦敦》等专著，大多被誉为经典。