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Backstage at the Revolution: How the Royal Paris Opera Survived the End of the Old Regime
Victoria Johnson
3.0 AVERAGE
1 review for:
Backstage at the Revolution: How the Royal Paris Opera Survived the End of the Old Regime
Victoria Johnson
3.0 AVERAGE
From an author with the most field-crossing c.v. I have ever seen--she's a new assistant professor of Organizational Studies at the Business School at Michigan, the Ph.D is in Sociology and the actual work is a historical study of the Paris Opera with supervision from John Merriman and Charles Tilly. The core of the book examines the question of how, even though it was a pet project of Louis XIV and seemed to represent all the resented privilege and protected bureaucracy of the court, the Royal Opera managed to convince the new Revolutionary government of Paris that it was a national treasure transcendent of the monarchy, worthy of protection as an asset "of the people" and a propaganda weapon of huge import. Cleverly done historical sociology of organization.