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Thomas Paine's Rights of Man argues that human rights are inherent. As such, they cannot be conferred on citizens by their governments because to do so would mean that these rights can be revoked by that same government. Paine further suggests that government is responsible for protecting the rights of men, and therefore, the interests of governments and citizens are united. Within this context, Paine argues that revolution is acceptable when the...
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The sixtieth anniversary edition of Frantz Fanon's landmark text, now with a new introduction by Cornel West
First published in 1961, and reissued in this sixtieth anniversary edition with a powerful new introduction by Cornel West, Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth is a masterfuland timeless interrogation of race, colonialism, psychological trauma, and revolutionary struggle, and a continuing influence on movements from Black Lives
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"Winner of the Grand Prix de la Biographie Politique" "Winner of the Prix littéraire de biographie historique Brantme" "A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year"
Olivier Zunz is the James Madison Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Virginia. He is the author, most recently, of Philanthropy in America: A History (Princeton). He is the editor of the Library of America edition of Democracy in America, Tocqueville's Recollections,...
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Aurelian Craiutu is professor of political science at Indiana University, Bloomington. His publications include Liberalism under Siege: The Political Thought of the French Doctrinaires, Tocqueville on America after 1840: Letters and Other Writings (edited and translated with Jeremy Jennings), and America through European Eyes (edited with Jeffrey C. Issac). He has also edited the political works of François Guizot and Madame de Staël.
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Extrait : "Une famille de républicains fouriéristes. — les Milliet. — Après tant d'heureuses rencontres, après les cahiers de Vuillaume c'est une véritable bonne fortune pour nos cahiers que de pouvoir commencer aujourd'hui la publication de ces archives d'une famille républicaine. Quand M. Paul Milliet m'en apporta les premières propositions, avec cette inguérissable modestie des gens qui apportent vraiment quelque chose il ne manqua...
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Biancamaria Fontana is professor of the history of political ideas at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. Her books include Montaigne's Politics (Princeton), Benjamin Constant and the Post-Revolutionary Mind, and Rethinking the Politics of Commercial Society.
The first in-depth look at Staël's political life and writings
Germaine de Staël (1766–1817) is perhaps best known today as a novelist, literary critic, and outspoken and independent...
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Extrait : "L'événement politique le plus déplorablement triste du dix-neuvième siècle est, selon toute probabilité, celui qui sera connu dans l'histoire sous le nom de : Commune de Paris. Cet épisode sanglant, succédant au siège de cinq mois soutenu contre les Allemands, fit certainement plus de mal aux Français et plus de tort aux Parisiens que la guerre et le bombardement ne leur eu avaient causés. Il serait difficile de le raconter sans...
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Mlada Bukovansky is Assistant Professor of Government at Smith College.
This book examines the causes and consequences of a major transformation in both domestic and international politics: the shift from dynastically legitimated monarchical sovereignty to popularly legitimated national sovereignty. It analyzes the impact of Enlightenment discourse on politics in eighteenth-century Europe and the United States, showing how that discourse facilitated...
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Robert Wokler (1942-2006) was at the time of his death Senior Lecturer in Political Science and in the Directed Studies program at Yale University. He was formerly Reader in the History of Political Thought at the University of Manchester. He was the author of Rousseau on Society, Politics, Music and Language and Rousseau: A Very Short Introduction. He was also the editor or coeditor of many books, including The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century...
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Extrait : "La France semble atteinte d'une grande déception à l'endroit de ses gouvernants. Après chaque Révolution nouvelle, — elle respire, elle espère. — Elle a manifesté sa volonté. — Elle croit que cela suffira. — Cela ne produit rien, et ce bon peuple de France aux illusions incorrigibles, s'en étonne."
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Les éditions LIGARAN proposent des versions numériques de grands classiques de la littérature...
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A look at life in the court of King Louis XIV, the politics of the time, and the trial of a man who knew too much for his own good.
From 1661 to 1664, France was mesmerized by the arrest and trial of Nicolas Fouquet, the country's superintendent of finance. Prosecuted on trumped-up charges of embezzlement, mismanagement of funds, and high treason, Fouquet managed to exonerate himself from all the major charges over the course of three long years,...
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Extrait: "Deux illustres personnages sont morts le 5 mai 1821. Tous deux avaient gouverné la France, avec des gloires diverses et des succès différents; l'un avait quitté la scène politique le 2 décembre 1804; l'autre, le 18 juin 1815. Tous deux vont appartenir à l’histoire; osons devancer son jugement. Bonaparte et Napoléon furent les plus grands capitaines de leur siècle et de tous les siècles..."
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Extrait : "Les causes principales qui ont amené la révolution ont été l'objet de tant de recherches ; elle avait d'ailleurs été si clairement annoncée par tant d'hommes éclairés du dernier siècle, et même si justement pressentie par le monarque indolent, don’t le vœu de chaque jour était d'en retarder la crise générale jusqu'à la fin de son règne, qu'il serait inutile, pour le but que nous nous proposons, de chercher à l'expliquer,...
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Les transcriptions des conférences données par Henri Guillemin en 1967 réunies dans un seul ouvrage.
On avait bien compris, à la lecture de son Silence aux pauvres, qu'Henri Guillemin ne se contentait pas, quant à la Révolution française de 1789, des versions officielles et convenues. La suite de conférences, données à la Radiotélévision belge en 1967, réunies ici par les soins de Patrick Rödel et Jean-Marie Flémale, nous le confirme.
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"Winner of the 2008 Prix François Guizot, Académie française" Lucien Jaume is a philosopher, political scientist, and historian of ideas. The author of a number of books, he is research director at France's Centre de Recherches Politiques de Sciences Po. He teaches in Paris, Rome, and Shanghai.
A major intellectual biography of Toqueville that restores democracy in America to its essential context
Many American readers like to regard Alexis...
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A look at how four French writers of the 1930s, '40s, and '50s contributed to the rise of Stalin in their country and abroad.
Generation Stalin traces Joseph Stalin's rise as a dominant figure in French political culture from the 1930s through the 1950s. Andrew Sobanet brings to light the crucial role French writers played in building Stalin's cult of personality and in disseminating Stalinist propaganda in the international Communist sphere, including...
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