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Book Synopsis Paris in the Terror: June 1793-July 1794 by : Stanley Loomis
Download or read book Paris in the Terror: June 1793-July 1794 written by Stanley Loomis and published by Philadelphia : Lippincott. This book was released on 1964 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French Revolutionary history told through the lives of some of its most influential personages, beginning with Charlotte Corday, assassin of Jean-Paul Marat. Mme. Manon Roland, Georges-Jaques Danton, Maximilien Robespierre, they all met violent deaths in a terror which dominated Paris and which the three, with Marat and a few others, largely engineered.
Book Synopsis Paris in the Terror, June 1793-1794 by : Stanley Loomis
Download or read book Paris in the Terror, June 1793-1794 written by Stanley Loomis and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Paris in the Terror June 1793_july 1794 by : Loomis Stanley
Download or read book Paris in the Terror June 1793_july 1794 written by Loomis Stanley and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution by : Timothy Tackett
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
Book Synopsis The Fall of Robespierre by : Colin Jones
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.
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.
Download or read book Terrorism written by Charles Townshend and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Is terrorism crime or war? Can there be a 'war against terrorism'? In this fully updated edition, Charles Townshend unravels the questions at the heart of the problem of terrorism - its causes, methods, effects, and limitations - suggesting that it must be understood as a political strategy whose threat can be rationally grasped and answered"--Publisher's description.
Book Synopsis The Tribunal of the Terror by : G. Lenotre
Download or read book The Tribunal of the Terror written by G. Lenotre and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Terror of Natural Right by : Dan Edelstein
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.
Book Synopsis Paris in the Terror, June1773 - July 1794 by : Stanley LOOMIS
Download or read book Paris in the Terror, June1773 - July 1794 written by Stanley LOOMIS and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An English Prisoner in Paris During the Terror (1793-1794) by : Sir William Codrington (bart.)
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:
Book Synopsis An English Prison in Paris During the Terror (1793-1794) by : William Baron Codrington
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:
Book Synopsis Jacobin Republic Under Fire by : Paul R. Hanson
Download or read book Jacobin Republic Under Fire written by Paul R. Hanson and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is time for a major work of synthetic interpretation, and this is what The Jacobin Republic Under Fire offers.".
Book Synopsis The Journal of a Spy in Paris During the Reign of Terror, January-july, 1794 by : Raoul Hesdin
Download or read book The Journal of a Spy in Paris During the Reign of Terror, January-july, 1794 written by Raoul Hesdin and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-08-13 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We have in "The Journal of a Spy in Paris" a genuine fragment, appearing to be part of the journal of an English spy in Paris, kept during the terrible months of January to July, 1794. "Raoul Hesdin" is the name written upon the brown paper cover of the hook. The Girondists have fallen and the Maximum Laws have just been passed at the point where the diary, as it exists, begins. During the seven months, from December, 1793, to July, 1794, is occurring the steady elimination of parties and individuals bv Robespierre for his own benefit. The followers of Hebert fall in March, those of Danton in April. Each partly leaves, however, a "tail," who gradually unites with those members of the committees who are themselves threatened, to work the Revolution of Thermidor, the downfall of Robespierre and the beginning of the end of the Reign of Terror. It is through this most intense, most terrible period of the French Revolution that Hesdin's diary, as published, runs. From day to day he jots down in crisp, trenchant phrases events as he sees them and knows them—political gossip of the Jacobin Club, clean-cut delineations of the ruling spirits in the Revolution, Robespierre, St. Just, Couthon, Billaud and Barere; vivid pictures of the guillotine horrors, municipal extortions and the filth and misery in Paris. It is a series of pen-pictures, among the most vivid of which are the descriptions of the horrible famine in Paris, the extent of vice, the state of art and literature, the horrors of the executions, judicial methods under the Terror, municipal extortions and briberies. —Philadelphia Press
Download or read book Robespierre written by Peter McPhee and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For some historians and biographers, Maximilien Robespierre (1758–94) was a great revolutionary martyr who succeeded in leading the French Republic to safety in the face of overwhelming military odds. For many others, he was the first modern dictator, a fanatic who instigated the murderous Reign of Terror in 1793–94. This masterful biography combines new research into Robespierre's dramatic life with a deep understanding of society and the politics of the French Revolution to arrive at a fresh understanding of the man, his passions, and his tragic shortcomings. Peter McPhee gives special attention to Robespierre's formative years and the development of an iron will in a frail boy conceived outside wedlock and on the margins of polite provincial society. Exploring how these experiences formed the young lawyer who arrived in Versailles in 1789, the author discovers not the cold, obsessive Robespierre of legend, but a man of passion with close but platonic friendships with women. Soon immersed in revolutionary conflict, he suffered increasingly lengthy periods of nervous collapse correlating with moments of political crisis, yet Robespierre was tragically unable to step away from the crushing burdens of leadership. Did his ruthless, uncompromising exercise of power reflect a descent into madness in his final year of life? McPhee reevaluates the ideology and reality of "the Terror," what Robespierre intended, and whether it represented an abandonment or a reversal of his early liberalism and sense of justice.
Book Synopsis The Terror in the French Revolution by : Hugh Gough
Download or read book The Terror in the French Revolution written by Hugh Gough and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-30 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We now live with the threat and the reality of political terror and terrorists. The French Revolution was the first occasion when a democratic government used terror as a political weapon, executing thousands of people for political crimes. What caused reasonable people to implement such a brutal regime? What did it achieve? What are its links with the terrors of the present day? This established text examines a range of key issues, analyses the terror's background and traces the course from the fall of the Bastille in 1789 to the work of the guillotine during the terror of 1793-4. It puts the terror into context and shows how circumstances and ideas interacted to create an event that has haunted the political imagination of Europe ever since. Thoroughly revised in the light of recent scholarship and debates, this new edition of an essential introduction includes: - An updated historiography section - Clearly set-out definitions of the 'terror' and more detail on its workings - An entirely new chapter exploring the social and cultural policies of the Revolution - An up-to-date bibliography, organised thematically for ease of reference
Book Synopsis Surviving the French Revolution by : Bette W. Oliver
Download or read book Surviving the French Revolution written by Bette W. Oliver and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-06-10 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unleashing of the French Revolution in 1789 resulted in the acceleration of time coupled with an inability to predict what might happen next. As unprecedented events outpaced the days, those caught up in the whirlwind had little time to make judicious decisions about which course of action to follow. The lack of reliable information and delays in communication between Paris and the provinces only exacerbated the situation. Consequently, some fled into exile in Europe and the United States, while others remained to take advantage of new opportunities provided by the revolutionary government. Between 1789 and 1794, the government moved from a position of hopeful cooperation to one of desperate measures instigated during the Terror of 1793–1794. As a result, those French citizens who had fled early in the revolution, including many aristocrats and the king's brothers, as well as the artist Elisabeth Vigee-LeBrun, could not return until many years later, while those who had remained, such as Vigée-LeBrun’s husband, the art dealer Jean-Baptiste Pierre LeBrun, as well as the artist Jacques-Louis David, the writers Sébastien Chamfort and André Chénier, and expelled Girondin deputies, chose survival strategies that they hoped would be successful. For all those concerned, timing was key to survival, and those who lived found that they had crossed a bridge between the Ancien Régime and the beginning of the modern world. It would not be possible to grasp the full import of the period between 1789 and 1795 until time had decelerated to a more reasonable level after the fall of Robespierre in 1794. Yet few could have then imagined that almost one hundred years would pass before a stable French republic would be established.
