In this book Lynn Hunt and Jack R. Censer lucidly trace events from 1789 until the fall of Napoleon, stressing the global dimensions of the French Revolution and offering balanced coverage of both its causes and outcomes. In doing so, Hunt and Censer reaffirm its huge significance for the modern political world in the process. Hunt and Censer give due attention to global compet...(展开全部)

林恩·亨特（Lynn Hunt），国际知名历史学家，全球新文化史运动的领军人物，著名法国史学者，斯坦福大学博士，加州大学洛杉矶分校欧金·韦伯现代欧洲史教授，美国艺术与科学院院士，英国国家学术院通讯院士，美国哲学会会员，曾任美国历史协会主席，先后执教于宾夕法尼亚大学和加州大学伯克利分校，1982年获得古根海姆奖。 亨特著述颇丰，在新文化史、性别史、法国大革命史和史学理论等领域都颇有建树，其代表作有《新文化史》、《法国大革命中的政治、文化和阶级》、《法国大革命时期的家庭罗曼史》、《人权的发明：一部历史》和《全球时代的史学写作》等，其中很多已经被翻译成多国文字，在全球流行。 杰克·R. 森瑟（Jack R. Censer），约翰·霍普金斯大学博士，乔治·梅森大学历史学荣休教授，康奈尔大学和马里兰大学客座教授，曾任乔治·梅森大学人文和社会科学学院院长，主要研...(展开全部)

Festivals and the French Revolution--the subject conjures up visions of goddesses of Liberty, strange celebrations of Reason, and the oddly pretentious cult of the Supreme Being. Every history of the period includes some mention of festivals, although most historians have been content either to ridicule them as ineffectual or to bemoan them as repugnant examples of a sterile, o...(展开全部)

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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)

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) is familiar to readers as the author of Democracy in America, the most-quoted book written about the United States. The Old Regime and the Revolution is Tocqueville's great meditation on the origins and meanings of the French Revolution. One of the most profound and influential studies of this pivotal event, it remains a relevant and stimulatin...(展开全部)

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) is familiar to readers as the author of Democracy in America, the most-quoted book written about the United States. The Old Regime and the Revolution is Tocqueville's great meditation on the origins and meanings of the French Revolution. One of the most profound and influential studies of this pivotal event, it remains a relevant and stimulatin...(展开全部)

索布尔（Albert Soboul，1914—1982），法国著名史学家。1936年毕业于巴黎大学，1938年取得中学历史教师资格，并加入法国共产党。1939—1940年应征入伍，法国溃败后在蒙彼利埃中学教书。1942年7月因参加抵抗运动被捕。1958年以《共和二年的巴黎无套裤汉》通过国家级文学博士学位论文答辩。1967年起任巴黎第一大学法国革命史讲座教授，直至去世。又任罗伯斯庇尔研究会秘书长、《法国革命史年鉴》主编、法国革命史研究所所长等职。著有《法国大革命简史》、《革命前夕的法国》、《理解法国大革命》、《文化与法国大革命》等。

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)