{"product_id":"surviving-revolution-bourgeois-lives-and-letters-paperback","title":"Surviving Revolution: Bourgeois Lives and Letters - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDenise Z. Davidson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSurviving Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e explores how two wealthy and well-connected families with roots in Lyon responded to the French Revolution and the resulting transformations.\u003c\/b\u003e In building a new political system based on liberty, equality, and fraternity, the French Revolution encouraged both individuals and families to recognize their power to shape the world through political action, rethink their strategies in negotiating intimate relations and family life, and assess both terrifying new risks and enticing opportunities for advancement. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDenise Z. Davidson traces two families' trajectories and weaves together the strategies they employed to survive and hopefully thrive in the decades that followed the Revolution. Their private correspondence shows that affect and interest, intimacy and property, are mutually constitutive, and cannot be \"thought\" separately. Her analysis reveals what it meant to be bourgeois, how gender played a role in the formation of class identities, and how family and emotional life overlapped with other arenas. These social and cultural themes are woven into the narrative through the stories told in the families' letters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy viewing dramatic historical events through the eyes of people who lived through them, \u003ci\u003eSurviving Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates how the practices of everyday life shaped emerging notions of bourgeois identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDenise Z. Davidson is Professor of History and Director of the Humanities Research Center at Georgia State University. She is the author of\u003ci\u003e France After Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e and coauthor of\u003ci\u003e Le roman conjugal\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 324\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.73 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 15, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46041361842312,"sku":"9781501784880","price":57.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/7168\/9864\/files\/UzBuWjq30u9781501784880.webp?v=1780751673","url":"https:\/\/birzeitsociety.myshopify.com\/fr\/products\/surviving-revolution-bourgeois-lives-and-letters-paperback","provider":"Birzeit Society Online Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}