Inventing the French Revolution `

Essays on French Political Culture in the Eighteenth Century

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How did the French Revolution become thinkable? Keith Michael Baker, a leading authority on the ideological origins of the French Revolution, explores this question in his wide-ranging collection of essays. Analyzing the new politics of contestation that transformed the traditional political culture of the Old Regime during its last decades, Baker revises our historical map of the political space in which the French Revolution took form. Some essays study the ways in which the revolutionaries'' break with the past was prepared by competition between agents and critics of absolute monarchy to control the cultural resources and political meanings of French history; by the contending political vocabularies in which the French sought before 1789 to reconstitute their body politic; and by the invention of "public opinion" as a new form of political authority displacing absolute rule. Others trace to the conceptual improvisation of revolutionary notions of "representation", "constitution", "sovereignty" -- and of "the French Revolution" itself -- the ambiguities, tensions, and contradictions that were to drive the revolutionary dynamic in subsequent years. The result is a substantial and unified set of studies, stimulating renewed reflection on one of the central themes in modern European history.

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'Professor Keith Baker is undoubtedly one of the most creative historians working on the intellectual histiry of 18th century France ... Anyone working in this field should listen carefully to what he has to say.' Dr. Colin Lucas, Balliol College, Oxford '[Professor Baker's] is an original and brilliant analysis of the central types of political discourse of the waning ancien regime.' Professor Francois Furet, University of Chicago

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
On the problem of the ideological origins of the French Revolution	p. 12
French history at issue
Memory and practice: politics and the representation of the past in eighteenth-century France	p. 31
Controlling French history: the ideological arsenal of Jacob-Nicolas Moreau	p. 59
A script for a French revolution: the political consciousness of the abbe Mably	p. 86
The language of politics at the end of the Old Regime
French political thought at the accession of Louis XVI	p. 109
A classical republican in eighteenth-century Bordeaux: Guillaume-Joseph Saige	p. 128
Science and politics at the end of the Old Regime	p. 153
Public opinion as political invention	p. 167
Toward a revolutionary lexicon
Inventing the French Revolution	p. 203
Representation redefined	p. 224
Fixing the French constitution	p. 252
Notes	p. 307
Index	p. 357
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