Ending the Terror: The French Revolution after Robespierre

Ending the Terror: The French Revolution after Robespierre

ISBN-10:
0521441056
ISBN-13:
9780521441056
Pub. Date:
07/28/1994
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10:
0521441056
ISBN-13:
9780521441056
Pub. Date:
07/28/1994
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Ending the Terror: The French Revolution after Robespierre

Ending the Terror: The French Revolution after Robespierre

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Overview

Ending the Terror makes accessible for the first time to an English-speaking readership a major revisionist assessment of a crucial moment in the history of the French Revolution. The months that followed the fall of Robespierre in July 1794 mark not just a turning point in the history of the Revolution: "Thermidor" is also a symbolic moment that came to haunt the subsequent revolutions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By this date the Terror as a system of power was discredited, and the engineers of the Terror were confronting the problem of how to dismantle it without repudiating the aims of the Revolution itself and its work. Professor Baczko analyzes the Terror in detail through the political history of the French National Assembly, and looks at the broader issues of the political culture of Revolutionary France.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521441056
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 07/28/1994
Series: Msh
Pages: 284
Product dimensions: 6.22(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.83(d)

Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Robespierre-the-king …; 2. The end of Year II; 3. 'Horror the order of the day'; 4. The vandal people; 5. The Thermidorean moment; By way of a conclusion: Thermidor in history; Chronology of events mentioned in the text; Index.
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