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Georges Lefebvre was born at Lille, France on August 6, 1874.
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La Monarchie de Juillet (Classic Reprint) (French Edition)
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The Great Fear of 1789: Rural Panic in Revolutionary France (Princeton Legacy Library)
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This major work, graphically describes the panic, paranoia, and social chaos that sparked the Revolution. One of France's great historians analyzes the causes of the mass hysteria that overcame rural France during the summer of 1789, as hungry villagers flocked into towns to look for work or to beg for charity, and as vagrants and beggars choked the rural roads, threatening reprisals against householders who refused to give them shelter or a crust of bread. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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The French Revolution
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Internationally renowned as the greatest authority on the French Revolution, Georges Lefebvre combined impeccable scholarship with a lively writing style. His masterly overview of the history of the French Revolution has taken its rightful place as the definitive account. A vivid narrative of events in France and across Europe is combined with acute insights into the underlying forces that created the dynamics of the revolution, as well as the personalities responsible for day-to-day decisions during this momentous period.
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Napoleon from 18 Brumaire to Tilsit 1799-1807 & Napoleon from Tilsit to Waterloo 1807-1815 (Two volume set)
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Two volume set in red cloth hardcover. No dust jackets. No writing or marking in books. First volume is second printing. Second volume appears to be first printing.
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The Coming of the French Revolution (Princeton Classics)
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The Coming of the French Revolution remains essential reading for anyone interested in the origins of this great turning point in the formation of the modern world. First published in 1939, on the eve of the Second World War, and suppressed by the Vichy government, this classic work explains what happened in France in 1789, the first year of the French Revolution. Georges Lefebvre wrote history "from below"?a Marxist approach. Here, he places the peasantry at the center of his analysis, emphasizing the class struggles in France and the significant role they played in the coming of the revolution. Eloquently translated by the historian R. R. Palmer and featuring an introduction by Timothy Tackett that provides a concise intellectual biography of Lefebvre and a critical appraisal of the book, this Princeton Classics edition continues to offer fresh insights into democracy, dictatorship, and insurrection.
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The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism
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The debate on the transition from feudalism to capitalism, originally published in Science and Society in the early 1950s, is one of the most famous episodes in the development of Marxist historiography since the war. It ranged such distinguished contributors as Maurice Dobb, Paul Sweezy, Kohachiro Takahashi and Christopher Hill against each other in a common, critical discussion. Verso has now published the complete texts of the original debate, to which subsequent discussion has returned again and again, together with significant new materials produced by historians since then. These include articles on the same themes by such French and Italian historians as Georges Lefebvre and Giuliano Procacci. What was the role of trade in the Dark Ages? How did feudal rents evolve during the Middle Ages? Where should the economic origins of mediaeval towns be sought? Why did serfdom eventually disappear in Western Europe? What was the exact relationship between city and countryside in the transition from feudalism to capitalism? How should the importance of overseas expansion be assessed for the 'primitive accumulation of capital' in Europe? When should the first bourgeois revolutions be dated, and which social classes participated in them? All these, and many other vital questions for every student of mediaeval and modern history, are widely and freely explored. Finally, for the new Verso edition, Rodney Hilton, author of Bond Men Made Free, has written a special introductory essay, reconsidering and summarising relevant scholarship in the two decades since the publication of the original discussion. The result is a book that will be essential for history courses, and fascinating for the general reader.
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Georges Lefebvre
Edit ProfileEducation
His father had little money to spend on his son's education. Young Lefebvre attended the local public school, followed the "special curriculum" in the local lycée-which emphasized modern languages, mathematics, and economics instead of the classical languages-and graduated from the University of Lille. This education, he later wrote, "opened my mind to economic and social realities, and gave me the air of an independent, self-taught individual among my colleagues later on. "
Career
He began research on his doctoral thesis in 1904, but as a provincial school-teacher, preoccupied by supporting a family and his aged parents, he did not complete it until 1924, when he was 50 years old. Lefebvre's doctoral thesis, "The Peasants of the Nord Department and the French Revolution, " was a detailed statistical study of the effect of the Revolution on the countryside. It was based on a thorough analysis of thousands of tax rolls, notarial records, and the registers of rural municipalities, whose materials he used to trace the effects of the abolition of feudalism and ecclesiastical tithes, the consequences of property transfers, the movement of the bourgeoisie into the countryside, and the destruction of collective rights in the peasant villages. He argued that the Revolution completed the breakdown of peasant solidarity and transformed the village community. It created a class of peasant proprietors attached to the gains of the Revolution and to the principle of private property. After his thesis appeared, Lefebvre was named professor at Clermont-Ferrand. In 1928 Marc Bloch succeeded in having him brought to Strasbourg, and in 1935 he was named to Paris. He reached retirement age in 1941 but was invited by his colleagues to remain until the Liberation.
He also wrote several general histories of the Revolution, integrating the social and economic history of the period with the political. The most famous are Napoleon (1935), 1789 (1939), and The French Revolution (1951).
He died in Paris on August 28, 1959.
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La Monarchie de Juillet (Classic Reprint) (French Edition)
(Excerpt from La Monarchie de Juillet L'une et l'autre au...)
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The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism
(The debate on the transition from feudalism to capitalism...)
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The Coming of the French Revolution (Princeton Classics)
( The Coming of the French Revolution remains essential r...)
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The French Revolution
(Internationally renowned as the greatest authority on the...)
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The Great Fear of 1789: Rural Panic in Revolutionary France (Princeton Legacy Library)
(This major work, graphically describes the panic, paranoi...)
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Napoleon from 18 Brumaire to Tilsit 1799-1807 & Napoleon from Tilsit to Waterloo 1807-1815 (Two volume set)
(Two volume set in red cloth hardcover. No dust jackets. N...)
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La Monarchie de Juillet (Classic Reprint) (French Edition)
Views
Lefebvre was a man of the left and called himself a Marxist. He considered Jules Guesde and Jean Jaurès to have had the greatest influence on his intellectual life. He had seen Jaurès only twice, from a distance, but the latter's Socialist History of the Revolution determined the direction of Lefebvre's research. Lefebvre's Marxism, however, was thoroughly tempered: "Marx clarified the dominant influence of the mode of production, but it was never his intention to exclude other factors, especially man . .. It is man who makes history. " Lefebvre showed the breadth of his views when he turned from statistical social history to social psychology. In The Great Fear of 1789 (1932) he sought the causes of this movement in the peasant mind: the fear of "brigands, " poverty, and unemployment, to which 1789 added a political crisis and fear of an "aristocratic plot. "
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