Reflections on the Impact of the French Revolution (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789739839150)

Refections on the Impact of the French Revolution is an English version of La sf\u00e2r?it de ciclu, a series of essays on the consequences of the French Revolution for nineteenth and twentieth-century culture and civilization, especially that of the Romanian lands, by one of modern Romania\u2019s leading historians, Academician Alexandru Zub. This translation, the first of Zub\u2019s remarkable contributions to historical scholarship to appear in English, makes available to an international audience his analysis of the complex of problems initiated by the French Revolution (as they have played out over the last two centuries), of the prophetic perceptions of the Revolution elaborated by Alexis de Tocqueville, and of the impact of the \u201cmoment of 1789\u201d and de Tocqueville on Romanian culture. The book is edited by Paul E. Michelson, an American specialist on nineteenth-century Romanian history and a scholar intimately familiar with Romanian historiography, who also provides an introduction to Alexandru Zub and his work for foreign readers in an informative preface. One of Romania\u2019s most distinguished historians, Alexandru Zub is a member of the Romanian Academy and author of numerous books and articles on Romanian history and historiography.

Author: Alexandru Zub
ISBN-10: 9739839150
ISBN-13: 9789739839150
Publisher: Center for Romanian Studies
Language: English
Published: 01/08/2000
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.60d