Description
| Summary: | Why do we use the terms ""left"" and ""right"" to characterize political matters? Left and right in themselves have no political significance. Apparently there is something inside us that connects these bodily terms to politics. This book is the first to discover that ""something"". Political use of the terms ""left"" and ""right"" originated in the French Estates General on the 7th of May 1789, two days after its grandiose opening session, in a simple ad hoc measure for a short event that afternoon. However, this measure embodied the unforeseen emergence of the political left/right dichotomy.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| ISBN: | 9781527535046
1527535045
1527534480
9781527534483 |
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| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource; title from PDF file page (EBSCO, viewed June 13, 2019). |
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