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Author : William Baron Codrington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (128 download)
Download or read book An English Prison in Paris During the Terror (1793-1794) written by William Baron Codrington and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vincent Todd Harlow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (41 download)
Download or read book An English Prisoner in Paris During the Terror (1793-1794) written by Vincent Todd Harlow and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir William Codrington (bart.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (41 download)
Download or read book An English Prisoner in Paris During the Terror (1793-1794) written by Sir William Codrington (bart.) and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Olivier Blanc
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Last Letters written by Olivier Blanc and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Helen Maria Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Letters Containing a Sketch of the Politics of France, from the Thirty-first of May 1793, Till the Twenty-eighth of July 1794, and of the Scenes which Have Passed in the Prisons of Paris written by Helen Maria Williams and published by . This book was released on 1795 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Colin Jones
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198715951
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book The Fall of Robespierre written by Colin Jones and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The day of 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the history of the French Revolution. Maximilien Robespierre, the most prominent member of the Committee of Public Safety, was planning to destroy one of the most dangerous plots that the Revolution had faced.
Author : Graeme Fife
Publisher : Piatkus Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Terror written by Graeme Fife and published by Piatkus Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From late 1792 to the summer of 1794, the young French Republic was subject to a reign of institionalised terror - in many ways the prcursor of Stalin's Great Terror of the 1930s. The Republic founded on liberty, equality and fraternity degenerated into a nightmare of paralysing fear nad panic, of suspicion and betrayal. Personified by Robespierre and Saint-Just, the Terror convulsed and very nearly ruined France - until they too met their fate under Dr Guillotin's new invention. That extraordinary, blood thirsty period comes vividly to life in this book; by mining the original French sources - contemporary documents, eye-witness accounts, reports from the dreaded Committee for public safety. The author brilliantly recreates the deadly, paranoid atmosphere of the time. He shows that the Terror was not just confined to Paris - the Terror cut a swathe across France. In Nantes, thousands of prisoners were dragged from their cells and drowned in the Loire. In Lyon, hundreds of rebels were mown down into mass graves by grapeshot. And yet amidst the horror there are also stories of great dignity and heroism, audacious escapes, and the pathos of heart-wrenching last letters written by men and women prisoners in the grim Conciergerie, awaiting the final ride in the tumbrels through the streets of Paris to the guillotine"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Dan Edelstein
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226184404
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book The Terror of Natural Right written by Dan Edelstein and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural right—the idea that there is a collection of laws and rights based not on custom or belief but that are “natural” in origin—is typically associated with liberal politics and freedom. In The Terror of Natural Right, Dan Edelstein argues that the revolutionaries used the natural right concept of the “enemy of the human race”—an individual who has transgressed the laws of nature and must be executed without judicial formalities—to authorize three-quarters of the deaths during the Terror. Edelstein further contends that the Jacobins shared a political philosophy that he calls “natural republicanism,” which assumed that the natural state of society was a republic and that natural right provided its only acceptable laws. Ultimately, he proves that what we call the Terror was in fact only one facet of the republican theory that prevailed from Louis’s trial until the fall of Robespierre. A highly original work of historical analysis, political theory, literary criticism, and intellectual history, The Terror of Natural Right challenges prevailing assumptions of the Terror to offer a new perspective on the Revolutionary period.
Author : David Andress
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374530730
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (37 download)
Download or read book The Terror written by David Andress and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-12-26 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For two hundred years, the Terror has haunted the imagination of the West. The descent of the French Revolution from rapturous liberation into an orgy of apparently pointless bloodletting has been the focus of countless reflections on the often malignant nature of humanity and the folly of revolution. David Andress, a leading historian of the French Revolution, presents a radically different account of the Terror. The violence, he shows, was a result of dogmatic and fundamentalist thinking: dreadful decisions were made by groups of people who believed they were still fighting for freedom but whose survival was threatened by famine, external war, and counter-revolutionaries within the fledgling new state. Urgent questions emerge from Andress's reassessment: When is it right to arbitrarily detain those suspected of subversion? When does an earnest patriotism become the rationale for slaughter? This new interpretation draws troubling parallels with today's political and religious fundamentalism.--From publisher description.
Author : Timothy Tackett
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674425189
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (744 download)
Download or read book The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution written by Timothy Tackett and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-23 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Author : C. Jones
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230273890
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities and the French Revolution written by C. Jones and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Tale of Two Cities has always been one of Dickens's most popular texts. Using a variety of disciplinary approaches, this new collection of essays examines the origins of Dickens vision of the French Revolution, the literary power of the text itself, and its enduring place in British culture through stage and screen adaptations.
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ISBN 13 : 9780947608057
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen 1789 and 1793 written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Will Bashor
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442255005
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Marie Antoinette's Darkest Days written by Will Bashor and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling book begins on the 2nd of August 1793, the day Marie Antoinette was torn from her family’s arms and escorted from the Temple to the Conciergerie, a thick-walled fortress turned prison. It was also known as the “waiting room for the guillotine” because prisoners only spent a day or two here before their conviction and subsequent execution. The ex-queen surely knew her days were numbered, but she could never have known that two and a half months would pass before she would finally stand trial and be convicted of the most ungodly charges. Will Bashor traces the final days of the prisoner registered only as Widow Capet, No. 280, a time that was a cruel mixture of grandeur, humiliation, and terror. Marie Antoinette’s reign amidst the splendors of the court of Versailles is a familiar story, but her final imprisonment in a fetid, dank dungeon is a little-known coda to a once-charmed life. Her seventy-six days in this terrifying prison can only be described as the darkest and most horrific of the fallen queen’s life, vividly recaptured in this richly researched history.
Author : Ruth Scurr
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805082616
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (826 download)
Download or read book Fatal Purity written by Ruth Scurr and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-04-17 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the dramatic backdrop of the French Revolution, historian Scurr tracks Robespierre's evolution from lawyer to revolutionary leader. This is a fascinating portrait of a man who identified with the Revolution to the point of madness, and in so doing changed the course of history.
Author : William Doyle
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0192853961
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)
Download or read book The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction written by William Doyle and published by Oxford Paperbacks. This book was released on 2001-08-23 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with a discussion of familiar images of the French Revolution, this work looks at how the ancien régime became ancien as well as examining cases in which achievement failed to match ambition.
Author : David Andress
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191009911
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the French Revolution written by David Andress and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-01-22 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of the French Revolution brings together a sweeping range of expert and innovative contributions to offer engaging and thought-provoking insights into the history and historiography of this epochal event. Each chapter presents the foremost summations of academic thinking on key topics, along with stimulating and provocative interpretations and suggestions for future research directions. Placing core dimensions of the history of the French Revolution in their transnational and global contexts, the contributors demonstrate that revolutionary times demand close analysis of sometimes tiny groups of key political actors - whether the king and his ministers or the besieged leaders of the Jacobin republic - and attention to the deeply local politics of both rural and urban populations. Identities of class, gender and ethnicity are interrogated, but so too are conceptions and practices linked to citizenship, community, order, security, and freedom: each in their way just as central to revolutionary experiences, and equally amenable to critical analysis and reflection. This volume covers the structural and political contexts that build up to give new views on the classic question of the 'origins of revolution'; the different dimensions of personal and social experience that illuminate the political moment of 1789 itself; the goals and dilemmas of the period of constitutional monarchy; the processes of destabilisation and ongoing conflict that ended that experiment; the key issues surrounding the emergence and experience of 'terror'; and the short- and long-term legacies, for both good and ill, of the revolutionary trauma - for France, and for global politics.
Author : John Phillips
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0192804693
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)
Download or read book The Marquis de Sade: A Very Short Introduction written by John Phillips and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005-07-28 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussing the 'real' Marquis de Sade from his mythical and demonic reputation, John Phillips examines Sade's life and work his libertine novels, his championing of atheism, and his uniqueness in bringing the body and sex back into philosophy.
