A01=Janusz Adamowski
Adamowski
Author_Janusz Adamowski
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Product details
- ISBN 9783631615768
- Weight: 500g
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 03 May 2012
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Hardback
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In this new interpretation of the French Revolution, Jan Baszkiewicz examines revolutionary attempts to «regenerate» man, France and the world in the face of deep-seated and persistent traditions. Using a broad array of primary sources – including pamphlets, diaries, police reports, and debate protocols – Baszkiewicz analyzes the tools French revolutionaries used to build a new society on the wreckage of the Ancien Régime: Spectacular holidays, reforms in family and marriage law, general schooling, the Republican Calendar, the «liberation» of public spaces, education through work, a new religion, terror and war. In the end, the great plans for regeneration failed, though the myths that surrounded those failures lived on well into the twentieth century.
Jan Baszkiewicz (1930-2011) was a Polish historian whose fields of research included political thought, social movements and political institutions. Much of his work focused on the Age of Enlightenment and the history of France. Other than New Man, New Nation, New World, his most popular works covered Robespierre, Danton and Richelieu.
