[Item #46527] Césarisme et Christianisme (de l'An 45 Avant J.-C. a l'An 476 Aprés). ANARCHISM, P.-J. PROUDHON, préf J.-A. Langlois.

Césarisme et Christianisme (de l'An 45 Avant J.-C. a l'An 476 Aprés)

Paris: C. Marpon et E. Flammarion Éditeurs, 1883. First Edition. Two volumes; 12mo (18cm.); contemporary brown morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered spines in five compartments, marbled endpapers, all edges speckled; xxiv,273; 312pp. Boards a bit scuffed especially to leather, leather rather dried with some shallow chipping at spine ends, spine gilt almost entirely effaced, textblock uniformly toned, contemporary ownership signatures to both title pages, else a Very Good, sound set.

Posthumously published work compiled of notes taken in the 1850s during Napoleon's reign as Monarch of France. Proudhon, known as the father of anarchism, had already spent three years in prison, from 1849 to 1852, for insulting Napoleon (at the time President of France) and the present study of early Christianity draws comparisons to the present political climate, describing a "Napoleon-Caesar as a despot who maintained his hegemony through corruption, cunning and terror. The multitude of people was reduced to an ignorant and miserable mass" (George l. Mosse, "Caeserism, Circuses, and Monuments," in "Journal of Contemporary History," Vol. 6, no. 2, p. 169).

Price: $300.00

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