Revolutionary Law and Order
Title | Revolutionary Law and Order PDF eBook |
Author | Peter H. Juviler |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2002-01-15 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0743236351 |
Examining the Soviet Union’s response to crimes with the use of enforced security, Peter Juviler provides insight on trends in criminal actions and common legal responses to them in Soviet Russia. Revolutionary Law and Order looks at how policy has been made by the Soviet Union, as well as the social and political changes that came to Russia and the successes and failures that came with the Soviet’s efforts to eliminate crime. Through Peter Juviler’s evaluation of Russia’s quest for law and order in the sense of security against crimes, readers will find numerous examples of the effective enforcement from the tsarist reforms to elaborate efforts of preventing and fighting cybercrimes.
The Old Regime and the Revolution
Title | The Old Regime and the Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Alexis de Tocqueville |
Publisher | |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 1856 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France
Title | The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France PDF eBook |
Author | Suzanne Desan |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 475 |
Release | 2006-06-19 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 0520248163 |
Annotation A sophisticated and groundbreaking book on what women actually did and what actually happened to them during the French Revolution.
The Terror of Natural Right
Title | The Terror of Natural Right PDF eBook |
Author | Dan Edelstein |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 351 |
Release | 2009-10-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0226184404 |
Natural right—the idea that there is a collection of laws and rights based not on custom or belief but that are “natural” in origin—is typically associated with liberal politics and freedom. In The Terror of Natural Right, Dan Edelstein argues that the revolutionaries used the natural right concept of the “enemy of the human race”—an individual who has transgressed the laws of nature and must be executed without judicial formalities—to authorize three-quarters of the deaths during the Terror. Edelstein further contends that the Jacobins shared a political philosophy that he calls “natural republicanism,” which assumed that the natural state of society was a republic and that natural right provided its only acceptable laws. Ultimately, he proves that what we call the Terror was in fact only one facet of the republican theory that prevailed from Louis’s trial until the fall of Robespierre. A highly original work of historical analysis, political theory, literary criticism, and intellectual history, The Terror of Natural Right challenges prevailing assumptions of the Terror to offer a new perspective on the Revolutionary period.
Sovereignty, International Law, and the French Revolution
Title | Sovereignty, International Law, and the French Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Edward James Kolla |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 2017-10-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107179548 |
This book argues that the introduction of popular sovereignty as the basis for government in France facilitated a dramatic transformation in international law in the eighteenth century.
Priests of the French Revolution
Title | Priests of the French Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph F. Byrnes |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 342 |
Release | 2015-02-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0271064900 |
The 115,000 priests on French territory in 1789 belonged to an evolving tradition of priesthood. The challenge of making sense of the Christian tradition can be formidable in any era, but this was especially true for those priests required at the very beginning of 1791 to take an oath of loyalty to the new government—and thereby accept the religious reforms promoted in a new Civil Constitution of the Clergy. More than half did so at the beginning, and those who were subsequently consecrated bishops became the new official hierarchy of France. In Priests of the French Revolution, Joseph Byrnes shows how these priests and bishops who embraced the Revolution creatively followed or destructively rejected traditional versions of priestly ministry. Their writings, public testimony, and recorded private confidences furnish the story of a national Catholic church. This is a history of the religious attitudes and psychological experiences underpinning the behavior of representative bishops and priests. Byrnes plays individual ideologies against group action, and religious teachings against political action, to produce a balanced story of saints and renegades within a Catholic tradition.
Revolutionary Constitutions
Title | Revolutionary Constitutions PDF eBook |
Author | Bruce Ackerman |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 432 |
Release | 2019-05-13 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0674238842 |
Offering insights into the origins, successes, and threats to revolutionary constitutionalism, Bruce Ackerman takes us to India, South Africa, Italy, France, Poland, Burma, Israel, Iran, and the U.S. and provides a blow-by-blow account of the tribulations that confronted popular movements in their insurgent campaigns for constitutional democracy.