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Terror

The French Revolution and Its Demons

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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At the heart of how history sees the French Revolution lies the enigma of the Terror. How did this archetypal revolution, founded on the principles of liberty and equality and the promotion of human rights, arrive at circumstances where it carried out the violent and terrible repression of its opponents? The guillotine, initially designed to be a ‘humane’ form of capital punishment, became a formidable instrument of political repression and left a deep imprint, not only on how we see the Revolution, but also on how France’s image has been depicted in the world.This book reconstructs the Terror in all its complexity. It shows that the popular view of a so-called ‘system of terror’ was retrospectively invented by the group of revolutionaries who overthrew Robespierre, as a way of trying to exonerate themselves from culpability. What we think of as ‘the Terror’ is best understood as an improvised and sometimes chaotic response to events, based on the urgent needs of a revolutionary government confronted by a succession of political and military crises. It was a government of ‘exception’ – a crisis government.Terror brings together a wealth of factual elements, along with recent thinking on the ideological, emotional and tactical dimensions of revolutionary politics, to throw new light on how the phenomenon of terror came to demonise the image and memory of the French Revolution. It will be essential reading for students and scholars of the French Revolution and for anyone concerned with the ways in which political conflict can descend into violence.

Terror

The French Revolution and Its Demons

AvMichel Biard,Marisa Linton

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

269 kr

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At the heart of how history sees the French Revolution lies the enigma of the Terror. How did this archetypal revolution, founded on the principles of liberty and equality and the promotion of human rights, arrive at circumstances where it carried out the violent and terrible repression of its opponents? The guillotine, initially designed to be a ‘humane’ form of capital punishment, became a formidable instrument of political repression and left a deep imprint, not only on how we see the Revolution, but also on how France’s image has been depicted in the world.This book reconstructs the Terror in all its complexity. It shows that the popular view of a so-called ‘system of terror’ was retrospectively invented by the group of revolutionaries who overthrew Robespierre, as a way of trying to exonerate themselves from culpability. What we think of as ‘the Terror’ is best understood as an improvised and sometimes chaotic response to events, based on the urgent needs of a revolutionary government confronted by a succession of political and military crises. It was a government of ‘exception’ – a crisis government.Terror brings together a wealth of factual elements, along with recent thinking on the ideological, emotional and tactical dimensions of revolutionary politics, to throw new light on how the phenomenon of terror came to demonise the image and memory of the French Revolution. It will be essential reading for students and scholars of the French Revolution and for anyone concerned with the ways in which political conflict can descend into violence.

Terror

The French Revolution and Its Demons

AvMarisa Linton,Michel Biard

E-bok

Engelska, 2021

310 kr

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At the heart of how history sees the French Revolution lies the enigma of the Terror. How did this archetypal revolution, founded on the principles of liberty and equality and the promotion of human rights, arrive at circumstances where it carried out the violent and terrible repression of its opponents? The guillotine, initially designed to be a ‘humane’ form of capital punishment, became a formidable instrument of political repression and left a deep imprint, not only on how we see the Revolution, but also on how France’s image has been depicted in the world.

This book reconstructs the Terror in all its complexity. It shows that the popular view of a so-called ‘system of terror’ was retrospectively invented by the group of revolutionaries who overthrew Robespierre, as a way of trying to exonerate themselves from culpability. What we think of as ‘the Terror’ is best understood as an improvised and sometimes chaotic response to events, based on the urgent needs of a revolutionary government confronted by a succession of political and military crises. It was a government of ‘exception’ – a crisis government.

Terror brings together a wealth of factual elements, along with recent thinking on the ideological, emotional and tactical dimensions of revolutionary politics, to throw new light on how the phenomenon of terror came to demonise the image and memory of the French Revolution. It will be essential reading for students and scholars of the French Revolution and for anyone concerned with the ways in which political conflict can descend into violence.

Terreur et Révolution française

AvMichel Biard

E-bok

Franska, 2016

104 kr

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Depuis nombre d''années, un débat agite les historiens sur l''origine et la nature des rapports qu''ont entretenu la Révolution française et la Terreur. De nombreux amalgames et approximations historiques, du reste, vont jusqu''à confondre la "terreur" et les terrorismes actuels. Peut-on réduire la période à ses violences ? Y aurait-il une "politique" – et donc un "système" organisé – dite "de la Terreur"? Et quel fut alors le rôle des émotions collectives ? A l''occasion d''analyses particulièrement fines et de rappels historiques précis, Michel Biard développe une réflexion ambitieuse pour faire le point sur ces questions, au-delà de tout parti pris idéologique : à cette condition seulement peut-on essayer de comprendre comment, à une époque, la France a pu être en même temps fraternelle et fratricide.Un ouvrage magistral et décisif sur un thème fondamental de notre histoire – et propre à éclairer notre tragique actualité.Agrégé d''Histoire, Docteur de l''Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Michel Biard est Professeur d''Histoire du monde moderne et de la Révolution française à l''Université de Rouen, où il dirige le laboratoire de recherche GRHis. Spécialiste de l''Histoire politique et culturelle de la période révolutionnaire, il a publié neuf ouvrages personnels et huit en collaboration, en a dirigé ou codirigé une quinzaine d''autres, auxquels il convient d''ajouter une centaine d''articles, contributions et communications. Parmi ses ouvrages personnels les plus récents : Parlez-vous sans-culotte ? Dictionnaire du Père Duchesne (1790-1794), Tallandier, 2009 (en format poche aux Editions du Seuil - collection Points, 2011) ; 1793. Le siège de Lyon. Entre mythes et réalités, Lemme Editions, 2013 ; Missionnaires de la République. Les représentants du peuple en mission (1793-1795), Vendémiaire, 2015 (première édition 2002) ; La liberté ou la mort. Mourir en député (1792-1795), Tallandier, 2015.

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