ISBN: 9780217082976

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1916. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... PREFACE Under the direction of the late Professor Ralph C. H. , Catterall I began to make a study of Barnave''s career in the Constituent Assembly to complete the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. At the outset I was confronted with the necessity of making a rather intensive study of the early revolutionary period in order to give the biographical sketch an adequate historical setting. To compile a narrative of Barnave''s daily deeds and speeches without sufficient explanation of what other men were doing and saying around him promised to be an idle undertaking. I needed to estimate Barnave''s influence on the actions of the Constituent Assembly. With this task in view, therefore, I turned aside, after a few months of general investigation, to familiarize myself thoroughly with the work of the committee on colonies of which Barnave was reporter and most conspicuous member. My intention was to study afterwards other phases of Barnave''s political activity in the same Intensive fashion and eventually to gather the results of my investigations into a complete biography. But that biography has now been written by another. The Life of Barnave (Oxford, 1915, 2 vols.) by Miss E. D. Bradby has well-nigh exhausted the subject. Rather than to go gleaning after her I prefer to put together the best of my materials on the colonies and withdraw from the field. The French colonies in the West Indies, with which this study deals, have already attracted the attention of historians. The secondary works listed in my bibliography will indicate what has been done for the period of the Constituent Assembly. For the most part, however, historians have been interested primarily in the colonies as such and have not examined with painstaking care the records of t... Mitchell Bennett Garrett, Books, Fiction and Literature, Fiction, The French Colonial Question, 1789-1791; Dealings Of The Constituent Assembly With Problems Arising From The Revolution In The Wes Books>Fiction and Literature>Fiction, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9780217082976

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ISBN: 0217082971

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