France before 1789
A masterful new account of old regime France by one of the world''s most prominent political philosophers
France before 1789 traces the historical origins of France''s National Constituent Assembly of 1789, providing a vivid portrait of the ancien régime and its complex social system in the decades before the French Revolution. Jon Elster writes in the spirit of Alexis de Tocqueville, who described...
A masterful new account of old regime France by one of the world''s most prominent political philosophers
France before 1789 traces the historical origins of France''s National Constituent Assembly of 1789, providing a vivid portrait of the ancien régime and its complex social system in the decades before the French Revolution. Jon Elster writes in the spirit of Alexis de Tocqueville, who described...
