
Republics, Nations and Tribes
Martin Thom(Author)
Verso Books (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 17. July 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
360 pages
978-1-85984-020-7 (ISBN)
Description
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, European perceptions of the ancient city underwent a dramatic alteration, due mainly to revulsion at the terror. Republics, Nations and Tribes relates that shift, both in ethnology and histiography. Thus the book is a novel and detailed study of the shifting concepts of liberty-and, in particular, the drift from classical/republican to Germanic/Romantic thought-at a key time of transition in European history, 1795-1848.
Republics, Nations and Tribes shows how deeply the dominant historiographical traditions in Western Europe have been marked by the Romantic trial of the Enlightenment and how, as a consequence, due weight has rarely if ever been given to the castigation suffered by the philosphes for their role in the subversion of the old regime. According equal attention to language, history and politics, Martin Thom explores the contested nature of liberty in cities and liberty through nations. In so doing, he provides a fascinating collective biography of the some of the era's most influential thinkers, and a brilliant and original intellectual history of this decisive history.
Republics, Nations and Tribes shows how deeply the dominant historiographical traditions in Western Europe have been marked by the Romantic trial of the Enlightenment and how, as a consequence, due weight has rarely if ever been given to the castigation suffered by the philosphes for their role in the subversion of the old regime. According equal attention to language, history and politics, Martin Thom explores the contested nature of liberty in cities and liberty through nations. In so doing, he provides a fascinating collective biography of the some of the era's most influential thinkers, and a brilliant and original intellectual history of this decisive history.
Reviews / Votes
... a splendid instance of the fusion of erudition and intellectual excitement ... Martin Thom has explored with exceptional subtlety the supplanting of old myths of identity and liberty by new theories of community in the age of the French Revolution. The depth of his analysis is matched by its geocultural breadth. -- Roy Porter Martin Thom boldly sketches a new view of the connection between the trauma of the French Revolution and the stirrings of Romanticism. A major work of scholarship and intellectual synthesis. -- Gareth Stedman-JonesMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
656 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85984-020-7 (9781859840207)
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Martin Thom
Republics, Nations and Tribes
Book
07/1995
Verso Books
€75.71
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Person
Martin Thom studied social anthropology at Cambridge and Oxford as has lived in Paris, Milan and Rome. He works as a translator and writer in Halifax.