Known legally as le 14 juillet (the 14th of July) and formally as le fete nationale (the National celebration), the day is now celebrated with feasts, musical performances, dances, firework displays, and the oldest and largest military parade along the Champs-Elysees.
Below are some selected titles our librarians wanted to share with you to commemorate Bastille Day:
Desan, Suzanne. (2013). The French Revolution in global perspective. [electronic resource] Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Situating the French Revolution in the context of early modern globalization for the first time, this book offers a new approach to understanding its international origins and worldwide effects. This international approach helps to explain how the Revolution fused immense idealism with territorial ambition and combined the drive for human rights with various forms of exclusion... examines role of smuggling and free trade, entwined nature of feminism and abolitionism, etc. - from book description
Furet, Francois. (1981). Interpreting the French Revolution. Cambridge, NY: Cambridge University Press.
Furet's book is based on the complementary ideas of these two writers in an attempt to cut through the apparent and misleading clarity of various contradictory views of the Revolution, and to help decipher some of the enigmatic problems of revolutionary ideology. It will be of value to historians of modern Europe and their students; to political, social and economic historians; to sociologists; and to students of political thought. - from book description
Mignet, F.A.M. (2012). History of the French Revolution : from 1789 to 1814. [electronic resource] Luton, U.K.: Andrews UK Limited.
François Mignet's 'Histoire de la révolution française' is a study of the events that caused a huge shift of power in France around the turn of the 19th Century.This was primarily a study of the theories and ideologies behind the events, rather than a factual record. - from book description
Miller, Mary. (2011). A natural history of revolution : violence and nature in the French revolutionary imagination, 1789-1794. [electronic resource] Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
In examining a series of tropes that played an important role in the public language of the Revolution, A Natural History of Revolution reveals that understanding the use of this natural imagery is fundamental to our understanding of the Terror. Eighteenth-century natural histories had demonstrated that in the natural world, apparent disorder could lead to a restored equilibrium, or even regeneration. This logic drawn from the natural world offered the revolutionaries a crucial means of explaining and justifying revolutionary transformation. - from book description
Situating the French Revolution in the context of early modern globalization for the first time, this book offers a new approach to understanding its international origins and worldwide effects. This international approach helps to explain how the Revolution fused immense idealism with territorial ambition and combined the drive for human rights with various forms of exclusion... examines role of smuggling and free trade, entwined nature of feminism and abolitionism, etc. - from book description
Furet's book is based on the complementary ideas of these two writers in an attempt to cut through the apparent and misleading clarity of various contradictory views of the Revolution, and to help decipher some of the enigmatic problems of revolutionary ideology. It will be of value to historians of modern Europe and their students; to political, social and economic historians; to sociologists; and to students of political thought. - from book description
François Mignet's 'Histoire de la révolution française' is a study of the events that caused a huge shift of power in France around the turn of the 19th Century.This was primarily a study of the theories and ideologies behind the events, rather than a factual record. - from book description
In examining a series of tropes that played an important role in the public language of the Revolution, A Natural History of Revolution reveals that understanding the use of this natural imagery is fundamental to our understanding of the Terror. Eighteenth-century natural histories had demonstrated that in the natural world, apparent disorder could lead to a restored equilibrium, or even regeneration. This logic drawn from the natural world offered the revolutionaries a crucial means of explaining and justifying revolutionary transformation. - from book description
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