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New Penguin History of France #2

فرزندان انقلاب: تاریخ فرانسه ۱۷۹۹ تا ۱۹۱۴

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فرانسهٔ سدهٔ نوزدهم یکی از سرمشق‌های بزرگ و فراگیر فرهنگی در سراسر جهان است، با ادبیات، فلسفه، هنر، شعر و فناوری مدرن و درخشانی که چشم جهانیان را خیره کرده است. اما فرانسه سرزمین جلیل انقلاب و شوریدن بر ستم و نامردمی، سرزمین هرج و مرج‌های سیاسی و اجتماعی نیز هست و هر نسل از فرزندان انقلاب بزرگ فرانسه دستخوش جنگ‌ها، انقلاب‌ها و وحشت‌های خاص خود بوده است. تاریخ نومایه و درخشان رابرت جیلدیا گسترهٔ گوناگون و پهناوری را در بر می‌گیرد: از انقلابیون جان بر کف، سرباز و کیشیش و دهقان و… تا چهره‌های ادبی تابناک. آنچه که کار این تاریخ دان نوآور را برجسته می‌کند کاوش و باریک سنجی دقیق در زمانه‌‌ای پرجوش و خوروش و در حال دگرگونی درنگ ناپذیر، و پی جویی در همهٔ جنبه‌های زندگی مردمانی است که در هر شرایطی بر حق آزاد زیستن خود پا می‌فشارند و در راه آزادی از فدا کردن جان خود دریغ ندارند.

764 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2008

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Robert Gildea

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Robert Nigel Gildea is professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford and is the author of several influential books on 20th century French history.

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May 18, 2011
In-depth history of the politics and culture of France in the 19th century. The author demonstrates how France had to contend with both the legacy of the Revolution (and its Enlightenment antecedent) as well as a strong conservative faction that sought to protect the power of the traditional elites and the established Church. The author presents a very nuanced picture, and while the political sections of the book were largely the same as other histories of the period, the author presented a great deal of information about French culture during this period that was quite interesting.
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March 4, 2013
Helpful, but Gildea has an odd sense of pacing his books. He delves into details that provide some helpful insights to the broader history that he covers, but then rushes through major events leaving the reader wondering what just happened. Not bad, but there is probably better out there.
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January 4, 2011
It would have been "great" instead of "good", had the author not bogged himself down with too many trifling (and rather dull) domestic details.
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April 4, 2017
A clear and fascinating analysis of the French in the nineteenth century.
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February 4, 2023
کتابی فوق‌العاده مهم و جامعه در باب صد و اندی سال از تاریخ فرانسه. نگارنده با ظرافت خاصی از بررسی کشمکش‌های سیاسی جمهوری‌خواهان و سلطنت‌طلبان برای به دست آوردن قدرت شروع می‌کند، به تغییرات و تحولات کلیسا و شکل‌گیری انقلاب بر نهاد مذهب می‌پردازد و از دریچه‌ی ادبیات و نگاه‌های شاعران و نویسندگان بزرگ فرانسه به تحلیل کوچک‌ترین و خصوصی‌ترین ابعاد زندگی فردی و جمعی انقلابیون وارد می‌شود.

اما ترجمه‌ی کتاب پر از ایراد، دشوار و گاها خواندن و درک آن ناممکن به نظر می‌رسد.
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November 28, 2023
An excellent history -- both political and social -- of France from the end of the French Revolution to the outbreak of the First World War. As the reviewer for the The Nation observed, Robert Gildea's book, while comprehensive, has an "eye for an individual example, anecdote or aphorism" that further enlightens the reader.
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August 27, 2011
Un saggio che prende in considerazione i cambiamenti culturali e sociali avvenuti in Francia dopo 3 diverse rivoluzioni, quella del 1789, quella del 1830 e quella del 1870... su google libri è disponibile un'ampia anteprima di questo libro e nella porzione disponibile si parla anche della dott. ssa Madeleine Pelletier nata nel 1874 e quindi figlia della terza rivoluzione che aveva conosciuto la Francia in 100 anni scarsi, una delle prime donne psichiatra nella Parigi di inizio '900, in un'epoca in cui c'erano in servizio sommando tutti gli ospedali parigini solo 19 donne medico...

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