Hippolyte Taine's fame as a historian rests on his monumental six-volume work, The Origins of Contemporary France , an effort to understand the France of his day undertaken after her defeat in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and the horrors of the Paris Commune of 1871. The Ancient R???gime is the first volume. Drawing from memoirs, diaries, correspondence, archival material, and the arts, he performs a systematic examination of pre-revolutionary France, beginning with the royalty and aristocracy, passing through the ...
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Hippolyte Taine's fame as a historian rests on his monumental six-volume work, The Origins of Contemporary France , an effort to understand the France of his day undertaken after her defeat in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and the horrors of the Paris Commune of 1871. The Ancient R???gime is the first volume. Drawing from memoirs, diaries, correspondence, archival material, and the arts, he performs a systematic examination of pre-revolutionary France, beginning with the royalty and aristocracy, passing through the clergy, the middle class, and the peasantry, and ending with the army. In a highly entertaining and readable narrative endowed with outstanding literary qualities, Taine provides an abundance of facts, which richly illustrate, with pyrotechnics and breadth, the long suicide of the ancien r???gime-structural, cultural, moral, intellectual, and economic-showing how this cadaverous entity laid the foundations for the French Revolution. Taine was known for his stubborn intellectual independence and scepticism towards then fashionable ideas, and this is evident in the present survey, where he exempts no one from responsibility in the concussion that followed. Long neglected in the English-speaking world, his unique historical perspective is tough and incisive, at once picturesque and contemplative, and stands, along with Burke's and de Maistre's, as an important articulation of the conservative view, contrasting sharply against contemporaneous histories by Michelet, Thiers, and Mignet and the later Marxist (or 'classic') interpretations given prominence during the first half of the 20th century.
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Add this copy of The Ancient Regime to cart. $10.00, good condition, Sold by Prairie Archives rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Springfield, IL, UNITED STATES, published 1876 by Henry Holt.
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Good plus or better, light general wear. Spine ends split and lightly chewed, top spine split 1 1/4" in gutter. Pages browned, int hinges splitting in endpapers.
Add this copy of The Ancient Regime to cart. $21.36, good condition, Sold by Fables Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Goshen, IN, UNITED STATES, published 1876 by Henry Holt.
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Good. Name written inside the front cover. Some shelf storage or usage wear present. The binding is tight and all pages are present. Foxing present on the page edges and endpapers. Does not appear to have come with a dustjacket originally. The pages appear aged but unmarked. Pictures available upon request. Individually inspected by Shadow. Thanks for supporting an independent bookseller!
Add this copy of The Ancient Regime to cart. $22.00, very good condition, Sold by Michener & Rutledge Bookseller rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Baldwin City, KS, UNITED STATES, published 1962 by Peter Smith.
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Very Good-with No dust jacket as issued. Marginal note on one page, name stamped to top edge, blind stamp to half-title page, otherwise text clean and solid; no dust jacket; The Origins of Contemporary France; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 421 pages.
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Very Good. No Jacket. This is a reprint of the 1876 Henry Holt edition of the first volume of Taine's six-volume history of France from 1750 to 1870; this volume describes French society up to the time of the Revolution (tan cloth with plain black lettering, ends of spine slightly creased; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)
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