Description
Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution was a winner in the Scholarly/Reference category at the Chicago Book Clinic's 2009 Book & Media Show.
Germaine de Sta l's voice, which Napoleon Bonaparte tried to silence by censorship and banishment, is a unique and important contribution to revolutionary historiography.
Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution, considered Madame de Sta l's magnum opus, became a classic of liberal thinking, making a deeply original contribution to an ongoing political and historical debate in early nineteenth-century France and Europe.
Germaine de Sta l (1766-1817) rose to fame as a novelist, critic, political thinker, sociologist of literature, and autobiographer.
Aurelian Craiutu is Professor in the Department of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington.
Author: Germaine de Staël
Publisher: Liberty Fund
Published: 12/01/2008
Pages: 804
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.45lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.80d
ISBN13: 9780865977327
ISBN10: 0865977321
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Political
- History | Europe | France