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Non-violence and the French Revolution : political demonstrations in Paris, 1787-1795 /
"Historians of the French Revolution have traditionally emphasised the centrality of violence to revolutionary protest. However, Micah Alpaugh reveals instead the surprising prevalence of non-violent tactics to demonstrate that much of the popular action taken in revolutionary Paris was not in...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Historians of the French Revolution have traditionally emphasised the centrality of violence to revolutionary protest. However, Micah Alpaugh reveals instead the surprising prevalence of non-violent tactics to demonstrate that much of the popular action taken in revolutionary Paris was not in fact violent. Tracing the origins of the political demonstration to the French Revolutionary period, he reveals how Parisian protesters typically tried to avoid violence, conducting campaigns predominantly through peaceful marches, petitions, banquets and mass-meetings, which only rarely escalated to physical force in their stand-offs with authorities. Out of over 750 events, no more than twelve percent appear to have resulted in physical violence at any stage. Rewriting the political history of the people of Paris, Non-Violence and the French Revolution sheds new light on our understanding of Revolutionary France to show that revolutionary sans-culottes played a pivotal role in developing the democratically oriented protest techniques still used today"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 292 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 131613167X 9781316131671 9781316014646 1316014649 9781316130582 1316130584 9781316129494 1316129497 1316120775 9781316120774 1316121860 9781316121863 1316133850 9781316133859 1316132765 9781316132760 1107443423 9781107443426 1316128407 9781316128404 |