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The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution by Tackett TP, BRAND NEW
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- 9780674979895
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- Book Title
- Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution
- Item Length
- 0.9in
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
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- Genre
- History
- Topic
- Modern / 18th Century, Europe / France, Revolutionary
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- Item Weight
- 24.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 480 Pages
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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 mentalit 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
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Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674979893
ISBN-13
9780674979895
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235560609
Product Key Features
Book Title
Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Modern / 18th Century, Europe / France, Revolutionary
Publication Year
2017
Genre
History
Number of Pages
480 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
0.9in
Item Height
0.1in
Item Width
0.6in
Item Weight
24.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
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Dc183.T26 2017
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Drawing on contemporary accounts, Tackett vividly describes [the events of early 1789], showing how the excitement of political change was muted by fear of chaos...Throughout his book, Tackett shadowboxes with Tocqueville, who argued that the Revolution merely reconstituted the centralization of the old regime. Tackett's more convincing argument is that there was an abrupt disjunction from past structures., Essential reading for anyone interested in how revolutions devolve into terror. Beautifully written, superbly documented, and fair and balanced in its judgments, it will be a landmark of scholarship for decades to come., The work of Timothy Tackett on the French Revolution has made him one of its most influential recent historians., A wonderful book, a veritable masterpiece. Tackett finds new sources to answer one of the oldest questions about the French Revolution: why did the deputies of the National Assembly put the Terror in place? In a captivating synthesis of the entire Revolution, he captures its drama and emotion, the fluctuating joys, anxieties, and fears of those who lived through unprecedented events., Drawing on their day-to-day observations, Tackett argues that the revolutionary process fundamentally changed the people who watched and participated in its unfolding. As France careened in just four years from absolute monarchy to constitutional monarchy to democratic republic and then descended into the Terror, citizens veered too...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., [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., [Tackett] analyzes the mentalit 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., [ Tackett ] analyzes the mentalit 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., [Tackett] shows how fear engendered by countless disappointments, betrayals, invasion, insurrection, and numbing violence on all sides, especially from the revolution's own militants, progressively turned fervent enthusiasts into conspiracy-obsessed terrorists. Tackett succeeds brilliantly; his volume is now the starting point for all efforts to understand this episode., [Tackett] shows how fear engendered by countless disappointments, betrayals, invasion, insurrection, and numbing violence on all sides, especially from the revolution's own militants, progressively turned fervent enthusiasts into conspiracy-obsessed terrorists. Tackett succeeds brilliantly; his volume is now the starting point for all efforts to understand this episode., [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., [ Tackett ] shows how fear engendered by countless disappointments, betrayals, invasion, insurrection, and numbing violence on all sides, especially from the revolution's own militants, progressively turned fervent enthusiasts into conspiracy-obsessed terrorists. Tackett succeeds brilliantly; his volume is now the starting point for all efforts to understand this episode.
Copyright Date
2017
Dewey Decimal
944.04
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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Yes
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