| Description |
1 online resource (x, 415 pages) |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-402) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
HISTORY.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- France.
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War -- Causes
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| SUBJECT |
France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Causes
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| Subject |
France
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781400827701 |
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1400827701 |
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1282129783 |
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9781282129788 |
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