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Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Honor, Virtue, and Patriotism in Eighteenth-Century France -- 1. Nobility and the Appeal to Virtue in Early Eighteenth-Century France (1700s-1740s) -- 2. Nobility and the Longing for Virtue: Patriotic Possibilities from Montesquieu to Mirabeau -- 3. Patriotism and Social Taxonomy in the Debate over La Noblesse Commerçante -- 4. Patriotic Resurgence and the Nationalization of Honor (1760s-1780) -- 5. Nobility in a Nation of Citizens (1760s-early 1780s) -- 6. Defining Nobility and Nation in 1788-1789 -- Conclusion: Patriotic Revolution -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W

The hypothesis that the beast of the Gévaudan (an intriguingly mysterious killer that roamed southern France in the 1760s) might be an African hyena was not simply a popular and amusing misconception; it reflected an important dimension of the critical spirit driving eighteenth-century science. By historicizing natural discovery and its motivations, this essay uncovers aspects of Enlightenment natural history—namely an attraction to the unknowable and a desire for uncertainty, both reflected in the fascination with the sublime—that only became more marked as the frontiers of knowledge receded. In doing so, the essay shows the distinctively hybrid character of an Enlightenment mentality that savored both illumination and darkness.

In 2010 allegations of an utterly corrupt academic system for student-athletes emerged from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus, home of the legendary Tar Heels. As the alma mater of Michael Jordan, Larry Brown, Marion Jones, Lawrence Taylor, Rashad McCants, and many others; winner of forty national championships in six different sports; and a partner in one of the best rivalries in sports, UNC-Chapel Hill is a world-famous colossus of college athletics. In the wake of the Wainstein report, however, the fallout from this scandal-and the continuing spotlight on the failings of college athletics-has made the school ground zero in the debate about how the 16 billion college sports industry operates. Written by UNC professor of history Jay Smith and UNC athletics department whistleblower Mary Willingham, Cheated exposes the fraudulent inner workings of this famous university. For decades these internal systems have allowed woefully underprepared basketball and football players to take fake courses and earn devalued degrees from one of the nation's top universities while faculty and administrators looked the other way. In unbiased and carefully sourced detail, Cheated recounts the academic fraud in UNC's athletics department, even as university leaders focused on minimizing the damage in order to keep the billion-dollar college sports revenue machine functioning. Smith and Willingham make an impassioned argument that the "student-athletes" in these programs are being cheated out of what, after all, is promised them in the first place: a college education..

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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Nobility After Revisionism -- I. Nobility and Economy -- 1. Economies of Consumption: Political Economy and Noble Display in Eighteenth-Century France -- 2. A Divided Nobility: Status, Markets, and the Patrimonial State in the Old Regime -- 3. The Noble Profession of Seigneur in Eighteenth-Century Burgundy -- 4. Political Economy and the French Nobility, 1750 -1789 -- II. Nobility and Political Culture -- 5. Noble Tax Exemption and the Long-Term Origins of the French Revolution: The Example of Provence, 1530s to 1789 -- 6. Women, Gender, and the Image of the Eighteenth-Century Aristocracy -- 7. Nobles into Aristocrats, or How an Order Became a Conspiracy -- III. Nobility and "Aristocratic Reaction" -- 8. A Rhetoric of Aristocratic Reaction? Nobility in De l'Esprit des Lois -- 9. The Making of an Aristocratic Reactionary: The Comte d'Escherny, Noble Honor, and the Abolition of Nobility -- 10. The Memoirs of Lameth and the Reconciliation of Nobility and Revolution -- IV. Nobility and Modernity -- 11. French Nobles and the Historians, 1820 -1960 -- For Further Reading -- List of Contributors -- Index

This volume explores the place of aristocratic virtues and values in the modern democratic world. Essays examine aristocratic priorities and interpretations of historic and contemporary aristocratic assemblies as well as critiques of liberal or bourgeois virtues, democratic equality, and democratic institutions.