Gerald J Cavanaugh
Biographic Data
| ID | 1165718 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerald J Cavanaugh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerald J |
| FAMILY NAME | Cavanaugh |
| SIGNATURE | CAVANAUGH G J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Reply to Behrens
I think it safe, and it is certainly irenic, to say that we are dealing in this discussion with a problem of perception. That problem involves how people in the Old Regime perceived their social reality, how historians perceive it, and, further, how historians perceive other historians' arguments. To take the last first, Behrens perceives that I misrepresent her case, specifically by charging her with advancing the view that the nobility paid sig…
Nobles, Privileges, and Taxes in France: A Revision Reviewed
Betty Behrens' revisionary views expressed in her article, Nobles, Privileges, and Taxes in France at the End of the Ancien Regime,' have already made their appearance in at least one popular history text2 and have begun to be used by other revisionary writers.3 Those views are essentially two. The first is that nobles, it must be made clear, were not the only group in France-clergy, corporations, and roturiers also enjoyed privileges. The second…
The Present State of French Revolutionary Historiography: Alfred Cobban and beyond
Just seventeen years ago the late Alfred Cobban opened the case against the orthodox of the French Revolution. Ten years later, in 1964, he summed up that case in his brilliant essay on The Social Interpretation of the French Revolution.l Cobban's argument and works inspired by or complementary to his revisionism have profoundly affected the historiography not only of the Revolution but of the Old Regime as well. We are today still working out th…
The Geometric Spirit: The Abbe de Condillac and the French Englightenment
The Enlightenment in France
The founders of the Enlightenment in France are presented in this volume. The author emphasizes the practice as well as practical humanism and examines their fascination with science
Turgot: The Rejection of Enlightened Despotism
In his long and active career as an officer of the Crown, Ann Robert Jacques Turgot voiced his political views explicitly but once, in a letter to P. S. du Pont de Nemours and that letter unfortunately is lost.1 Lacking Turgot's own definitive statement, historians concerned with the matter have had to base their interpretations of Turgot's politics on materials scattered through the mass of his writings and those of his contemporaries. Not surpr…
The Geometric Spirit: The Abbe de Condillac and the French Englightenment
The Enlightenment in France
The founders of the Enlightenment in France are presented in this volume. The author emphasizes the practice as well as practical humanism and examines their fascination with science
Turgot: The Rejection of Enlightened Despotism
In his long and active career as an officer of the Crown, Ann Robert Jacques Turgot voiced his political views explicitly but once, in a letter to P. S. du Pont de Nemours and that letter unfortunately is lost.1 Lacking Turgot's own definitive statement, historians concerned with the matter have had to base their interpretations of Turgot's politics on materials scattered through the mass of his writings and those of his contemporaries. Not surpr…
Nobles, Privileges, and Taxes in France: A Revision Reviewed
Betty Behrens' revisionary views expressed in her article, Nobles, Privileges, and Taxes in France at the End of the Ancien Regime,' have already made their appearance in at least one popular history text2 and have begun to be used by other revisionary writers.3 Those views are essentially two. The first is that nobles, it must be made clear, were not the only group in France-clergy, corporations, and roturiers also enjoyed privileges. The second…
The Present State of French Revolutionary Historiography: Alfred Cobban and beyond
Just seventeen years ago the late Alfred Cobban opened the case against the orthodox of the French Revolution. Ten years later, in 1964, he summed up that case in his brilliant essay on The Social Interpretation of the French Revolution.l Cobban's argument and works inspired by or complementary to his revisionism have profoundly affected the historiography not only of the Revolution but of the Old Regime as well. We are today still working out th…
The Geometric Spirit: The Abbe de Condillac and the French Englightenment
The Enlightenment in France
The founders of the Enlightenment in France are presented in this volume. The author emphasizes the practice as well as practical humanism and examines their fascination with science
Turgot: The Rejection of Enlightened Despotism
In his long and active career as an officer of the Crown, Ann Robert Jacques Turgot voiced his political views explicitly but once, in a letter to P. S. du Pont de Nemours and that letter unfortunately is lost.1 Lacking Turgot's own definitive statement, historians concerned with the matter have had to base their interpretations of Turgot's politics on materials scattered through the mass of his writings and those of his contemporaries. Not surpr…
The Present State of French Revolutionary Historiography: Alfred Cobban and beyond
Just seventeen years ago the late Alfred Cobban opened the case against the orthodox of the French Revolution. Ten years later, in 1964, he summed up that case in his brilliant essay on The Social Interpretation of the French Revolution.l Cobban's argument and works inspired by or complementary to his revisionism have profoundly affected the historiography not only of the Revolution but of the Old Regime as well. We are today still working out th…
Nobles, Privileges, and Taxes in France: A Revision Reviewed
Betty Behrens' revisionary views expressed in her article, Nobles, Privileges, and Taxes in France at the End of the Ancien Regime,' have already made their appearance in at least one popular history text2 and have begun to be used by other revisionary writers.3 Those views are essentially two. The first is that nobles, it must be made clear, were not the only group in France-clergy, corporations, and roturiers also enjoyed privileges. The second…
Reply to Behrens
I think it safe, and it is certainly irenic, to say that we are dealing in this discussion with a problem of perception. That problem involves how people in the Old Regime perceived their social reality, how historians perceive it, and, further, how historians perceive other historians' arguments. To take the last first, Behrens perceives that I misrepresent her case, specifically by charging her with advancing the view that the nobility paid sig…
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