
Автор: H.B. Callaway
Издательство: Harvard University Press
Серия: Harvard Historical Studies
Год: 2023
Страниц: 305
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 12.9 MB
A bold account of property reform during the French Revolution, arguing that the lofty democratic ideals enshrined by revolutionary leaders were rarely secured in practice―with lasting consequences. Property reform was at the heart of the French Revolution. As lawmakers proclaimed at the time, and as historians have long echoed, the Revolution created modern property rights. Under the new regime, property was redefined as an individual right to which all citizens were entitled. Yet as the state seized assets and prepared them for sale, administrators quickly found that realizing the dream of democratic property rights was far more complicated than simply rewriting laws.