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1 online resource (x, 415 pages) |
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polychrome |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-402) and index. |
Summary |
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. |
Contents |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1. Facing the Future; 2. Montesquieu and the Idea of Monarchy; 3. Morality and Politics in a Divided World; 4. Industry and Representative Government; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX. |
Local Note |
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Subject |
France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Causes.
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Revolution (France : 1789-1799) |
Chronological Term |
1789-1799 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Sonenscher, Michael. Before the deluge. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2007 9780691124995 069112499X (DLC) 2006016623 (OCoLC)69028342 |
ISBN |
9781400827701 (electronic book) |
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1400827701 (electronic book) |
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1282129783 |
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9781282129788 |
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9780691124995 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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069112499X (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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