For For students of legal and institutional history wanting a French textbook on the long nineteenth century; not for a reader looking for Ellul's own ideas.
Should I read this?
For the general reader
0 of 5not for the general reader
For the researcher
3 of 5worth your time
Difficulty
3 of 5demanding
A university textbook on nineteenth-century institutions, from the Revolution to 1914. History, not Ellul's own argument.
How it proceeds
Philosophic1 of 5
Scriptural0 of 5
Experiential0 of 5
Sociological3 of 5
Historical5 of 5
Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.
The volume of Ellul's Histoire des institutions (Presses universitaires de France) covering the period from the Revolution of 1789 to 1914. A university textbook written from his teaching of legal and institutional history at Bordeaux. It has not been translated into English.
