
Cultural Revolutions
Everyday Life and Politics in Britain, North America, and France
Leora Auslander(Author)
University of California Press
1st Edition
Published on 9. March 2009
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-520-25920-1 (ISBN)
Description
In Cultural Revolutions, Leora Auslander takes a highly original approach to the significance of the political changes wrought by the English Civil War (1642-1651), the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), and the French Revolution (1789-1799). This broadly conceived yet succinct essay advances a new argument: that these three revolutions were not bourgeois in character but were revolutions of culture that led to a transformation of the ways societies could be politicized. Auslander argues that these revolutions conferred new importance upon the symbols of state and upon the cultural components of our everyday lives--the clothes that cover our bodies, the food we eat, and the songs and plays to which we turn for distraction and insight.
Copub: Berg Publishers
Copub: Berg Publishers
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Language
English
Place of publication
Berkeley, California
United States
Publishing group
The University of California Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 159 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
567 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-25920-1 (9780520259201)
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Person
Author
Leora Auslander is Professor of History and Founding Director of the Center of Gender Studies at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Taste and Power: Furnishing Modern France (UC Press).