The Legacy of the French RevolutionRalph C. Hancock, L. Gary Lambert Rowman & Littlefield, 1996 - 299 páginas This collection of essays by prominent American and French scholars explores the political, cultural, and social implications of the most fundamentally formative modern event, the French Revolution. The contributors contend that the vocabulary and spirit of the French Revolution has exercised greater influence on the modern world than the more moderate and by all appearances more successful American Revolution. The Legacy of the French Revolution delineates the distinctive characters of the American and French revolutions and analyzes the different variants of democratic political traditions that have evolved from this seminal event. This book will be of particular interest to political theorists, political historians, and students of democratic theory. |
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The Unfinished Revolution | 19 |
The French Revolution and French and English Liberalism | 43 |
Two Philosophies Two Revolutions | 79 |
The Two Revolutions | 81 |
The American Founding and the French Revolution | 109 |
Human Rights and Constitutional Government A FrancoAmerican Dialogue at the Time of the Revolution | 151 |
The Great Misunderstanding | 175 |
Revolution Constitution Law | 187 |
The Rule of Law in EighteenthCentury Revolutions | 189 |
The Rights of Man and Citizen in the French Constitutional Tradition | 199 |
Revolutionary Visions in Legal Imagery Constitutional Contrasts between France and America | 219 |
Conclusion Two Revolutions and the Problem of Modern Prudence | 257 |
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