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En 1788, la convocatoria de los Estados Generales de Francia, tras un intervalo de más de un siglo y medio, permitió a Emmanuel Sieyès publicar Ideas sobre los medios de actuación de que podrán disponer los representantes de Francia en 1789, donde sienta las bases de su pensamiento político. Escribe Ensayo sobre los privilegios y el mismo año publica su celebrado panfleto: ¿Qué es el Tercer Estado? Comenzaba con la respuesta a la pregunta:...
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extrait : "le 10 août 1792, l'Assemblée législative, en établissant le suffrage universel, fit de la France un État démocratique, et, le 22 septembre suivant, en établissant la république, la Convention nationale donna à cette démocratie la forme de gouvernement qui semblait lui convenir logiquement..."
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Something was in the air in 2011, as protest movements swept through the world-from the Arab Spring, to Spain's Indignados, to the Occupy Wall Street movement that spread from Zuccotti Park in downtown Manhattan across the United States in the wake of the global financial collapse.
This volume collects firsthand accounts and essays about this extraordinary period-providing not only an overview of recent historical events and personal insights about...
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"One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018" Hilda Sabato is head researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) in Argentina and former professor of history at the University of Buenos Aires. Her books include The Many and the Few: Political Participation in Republican Buenos Aires and Agrarian Capitalism and the World Market: Buenos Aires in the Pastoral Age, 1840–1890.
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Histoire politique récente de l'Islande
Sous forme de chroniques, Jérme Skalski rend compte de la « Révolution des casseroles » en Islande. Suite au déclenchement de la crise financière internationale à l'automne 2008, l'Islande a choisi de tourner le dos à la « doctrine d'austérité » qui forme actuellement le lieu commun dominant des politiques de gestion de l'après-crise.
Passée du statut de laboratoire de la finance triomphante...
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In France, both political culture and theatrical performances have drawn upon melodrama. This "melodramatic thread" helped weave the country's political life as it moved from monarchy to democracy. By examining the relationship between public ceremonies and theatrical performance, James R. Lehning sheds light on democratization in modern France. He explores the extent to which the dramatic forms were present in the public performance of political...
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Three Scottish weavers, James Wilson, Andrew Hardie and John Baird, were hanged and beheaded for high treason in the summer of 1820. Nineteen more men were transported to the penal colony of Botany Bay. Their crime? To have taken up arms against a corrupt and nepotistic parliament, and the aristocratic government that refused to reform it.
This 'Radical War' was the culmination of five years of unsuccessful mass petitioning of Westminster by working...
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What the two great modern revolutions can teach us about democracy today.
In 1790, the American diplomat and politician Governor Morris compared the French and American Revolutions, saying that the French "have taken Genius instead of Reason for their guide, adopted Experiment instead of Experience, and wander in the Dark because they prefer Lightning to Light." Although both revolutions professed similar Enlightenment ideals of freedom, equality,...
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