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Introduction: New Directions in Political History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2013

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References

1 See, most recently, Gallagher, Catherine and Greenblatt, Stephen, introduction to Practicing New Historicism (Chicago, 2000)Google Scholar.

2 Furet, François, Interpreting the French Revolution, trans. Forster, Elborg (Cambridge, 1981), p. 27Google Scholar. Also see the comments of Jones, Colin and Wahrman, Dror, “Introduction: An Age of Cultural Revolutions?” in The Age of Cultural Revolutions, Britain and France, 1750–1820, ed. Jones, Colin and Wahrman, Dror (Berkeley, 2002), particularly pp. 1112Google Scholar. The work of Lynn Hunt was especially important in brokering this shift for Anglo-American scholars, particularly her Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution (Berkeley, 1984)Google Scholar.

3 Burke, Edmund, Reflections on the Revolution in France: A Critical Edition, ed. Clark, J. C. D. (Stanford, Calif., 2001), p. 229Google Scholar.

4 de Baecque, Antoine, Glory and Terror: Seven Deaths under the French Revolution, trans. Mandell, Charlotte (New York, 2001), p. 7Google Scholar.

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6 For what is at stake more generally, see Reddy, William M., “Against Constructionism: The Historical Ethnography of Emotions,” Current Anthropology 18, no. 3 (1997): 327–51CrossRefGoogle Scholar.