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The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution
Engelsk Paperback
The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution
Engelsk Paperback

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Between 1793 and 1794, thousands of French citizens were imprisoned and hundreds sent to the guillotine by a powerful dictatorship that claimed to be acting in the public interest. Only a few years earlier, revolutionaries had proclaimed a new era of tolerance, equal justice, and human rights. How and why did the French Revolution’s lofty ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity descend into violence and terror?“By attending to the role of emotions in propelling the Terror, Tackett steers a more nuanced course than many previous historians have managed…Imagined terrors, as…Tackett very usefully reminds us, can have even more political potency than real ones.”—David A. Bell, The Atlantic“[Tackett] analyzes the mentalité of those who became ‘terrorists’ in 18th-century France…In emphasizing weakness and uncertainty instead of fanatical strength as the driving force behind the Terror…Tackett…contributes to an important realignment in the study of French history.”—Ruth Scurr, The Spectator“[A] boldly conceived and important book…This is a thought-provoking book that makes a major contribution to our understanding of terror and political intolerance, and also to the history of emotions more generally. It helps expose the complexity of a revolution that cannot be adequately understood in terms of principles alone.”—Alan Forrest, Times Literary Supplement
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
480
ISBN-13:
9780674979895
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0674979893
Udg. Dato:
20 nov 2017
Længde:
33mm
Bredde:
230mm
Højde:
150mm
Forlag:
Harvard University Press
Oplagsdato:
20 nov 2017
Forfatter(e):
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