The French Revolution and Human Rights: A Brief Documentary History (Bedford Series in History and Culture)

Lynn Hunt

ISBN 10: 0312122497 / ISBN 13: 9780312122492

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The French Revolution and Human Rights: A Brief Documentary History (Bedford Series in History and Culture)
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312122497
• ISBN 13: 9780312122492
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 10 ounces

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Synopsis

This brief documentary history explores the issue of rights and citizenship that dominated Revolutionary France and helped define modern notions of civil rights. The rich selection of 38 primary documents - many never before published in Englishallows students to read and analyze, firsthand, the intense debates and subsequent legislation engendered by the French Revolution. An extensive introductory essay discusses the controversies over citizenship and rights current in Enlightenment and Revolutionary France. Headnotes for the documents, a chronology, a bibliography, engravings from the period, and questions to consider are also included.

About the Author

LYNN HUNT, Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History at University of California at Los Angeles, received her B.A. from Carleton College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. She is the author of Revolution and Urban Politics in Provincial France (1978), Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution (1984), and The Family Romance of the French Revolution (1992); she is also the co-author of Telling the Truth About History (1994), co-author of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution (2001, with CD-ROM), editor of The New Cultural History (1989), editor and translator of The French Revolution and Human Rights (1996), and co-editor of Histories: French Constructions of the Past (1995), Beyond the Cultural Turn (1999), and Human Rights and Revolutions (2000). She has been awarded fellowships by the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She served as president of the American Historical Association in 2002.