Citizens : a chronicle of the French revolution /
By Simon Schama.
- 1st edition
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1989.
- XX, 948 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
For Jack Plumb Simon Schama, author of "The embarrassment of riches"
Bibliogr.: p. 879-906; index: p. 907-946
Contens: 1.New men.-2.Blue horizons, red ink.-3.Absolutism attacked.-4.The cultural construction of a Citizen.-5.The costs of modernity.-Part two: 6.Body politics.-7.Suicides, 1787-1788.-8.Grievances, Autumn 1788-Spring 1789.-9.Improvising a nation.-10.Bastille.- Part three: 11.Reason and ureason.-12.Acts of faith.-13.Departures.-14."Marseillaise", September 1791-August 1792.-15.Impure blood, August 1792-January 1793.- Part four: 16.Enemies of the people? Winter-Spring 1793-17."Terror is the order of the day", June 1793-frimaire an II (December 1793).-18.The politics of turpitude.-19.Chiliasm, April-July 1794