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Science and Polity in France: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Years
Charles Coulston Gillispie
Science and Polity in France: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Years
Charles Coulston Gillispie
Examines how the revolutionary and Napoleonic context contributed to modernization both of politics and science. This work argues that in politics the central feature of this modernization was conversion of subjects of a monarchy into citizens of a republic in direct contact with a state enormously augmented in power.
768 pages, 3 line illus. 13 halftones.
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | July 26, 2004 |
ISBN13 | 9780691115412 |
Publishers | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 752 |
Dimensions | 152 × 235 × 47 mm · 936 g |
Language | English |
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