TitleThe Abbรฉ Grรฉgoire and his World [electronic resource] / edited by Jeremy D. Popkin, Richard H. Popkin
ImprintDordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2000
Connect tohttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4070-6
Descript XV, 200 p. online resource

SUMMARY

A distinguished group of international scholars from the disciplines of history, philosophy, literature and art history offer a reconsideration of the ideas and the impact of the abbรฉ Henri Grรฉgoire, one of the most important figures of the French Revolution and a contributor to the campaigns for Jewish emancipation, rights for blacks, the reform of the Catholic Church and many other causes


CONTENT

Essay 1 / Grรฉgoire and the Anthropology of Emancipation -- Essay 2 / The Abbรฉ Grรฉgoireโs Program for the Jews: Social Reform and Spiritual Project -- Essay 3 / The Abbรฉ Grรฉgoire and the Sociรฉtรฉ des Amis des Noirs -- Essay 4 / Exporting the Revolution: Grรฉgoire, Haiti and the Colonial Laboratory, 1815-1827 -- Essay 5 / The Abbรฉ Grรฉgoire and the Quest for a Catholic Republic -- Essay 6 / Tearing Down the Tower of Babel: Grรฉgoire and French Multilingualism -- Essay 7 / The Paradoxes of Vandalism: Henri Grรฉgoire and the Thermidorian Discourse on Historical Monuments -- Essay 8 / Grรฉgoireโs American Involvements -- Essay 9 / Grรฉgoire as Autobiographer -- Afterword / Discovering the Abbรฉ Grรฉgoire


SUBJECT

  1. History
  2. History
  3. History
  4. general