Continuity and rupture in the Ancien Régime and the French Revolution: the problem of administrative centralization
The purpose of this article is to analyze the works of Alexis de Tocqueville on the French Revolution. The text is presented in two parts. The first part, entitled “Tocqueville and the history of the Revolution: some questions of method”, is dedicated to his groundbreaking methodology based on a lon...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2012 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto (UFOP) |
| Repositorio: | História da Historiografia |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.www.historiadahistoriografia.com.br:article/474 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://www.historiadahistoriografia.com.br/revista/article/view/474 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Ancien Régime French historiography Revolution Antiguo Régimen Historiografía francesa Revolución Antigo Regime Historiografia francesa Revolução |
| Sumario: | The purpose of this article is to analyze the works of Alexis de Tocqueville on the French Revolution. The text is presented in two parts. The first part, entitled “Tocqueville and the history of the Revolution: some questions of method”, is dedicated to his groundbreaking methodology based on a long-term view of the historical process, which tended to stress the structural continuities instead of ruptures in the Revolution. The second part, entitled “Centralization and revolution: continuity and rupture”, analyses the issue of the administrative centralization of the French State as the essential mechanism of this structural process. |
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