The coming of the terror in the French Revolution
How and why did the French Revolution's lofty ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity descend into violence and terror? The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution offers a new interpretation of this turning point in world history. Timothy Tackett traces the inexorable emergence of a...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
2015.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39258981*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: the revolutionary process
- The revolutionaries and their world in 1789
- The spirit of '89
- The breakdown of authority
- The menace of counterrevolution
- Between hope and fear
- The factionalization of France
- Fall of the monarchy
- The first terror
- The convention and the trial of the king
- The Crisis of '93
- Revolution and terror until victory
- The year II and the great terror
- Conclusion: becoming a terrorist.
