Before the deluge : public debt, inequality, and the intellectual origins of the French Revolution /
Ever since the French Revolution, Madame de Pompadour's comment, "Apres moi, le deluge" (after me, the deluge), has looked like a callous if accurate prophecy of the political cataclysms that began in 1789. But decades before the Bastille fell, French writers had used the phrase to de...
Основен автор: | Sonenscher, Michael. |
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Формат: | Електронна книга |
Език: | English |
Публикувано: |
Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
℗♭2007.
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Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=273029 |
Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Before the deluge. |
Резюме: |
Ever since the French Revolution, Madame de Pompadour's comment, "Apres moi, le deluge" (after me, the deluge), has looked like a callous if accurate prophecy of the political cataclysms that began in 1789. But decades before the Bastille fell, French writers had used the phrase to describe a different kind of selfish recklessness--not toward the flood of revolution but, rather, toward the flood of public debt. |
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Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (x, 415 pages) |
Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-402) and index. |
ISBN: |
9781400827701 1400827701 1282129783 9781282129788 |