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Choosing terror : virtue, friendship, and authenticity in the French Revolution /

'Choosing Terror' examines the leaders of the French Revolution and particularly the process whereby they came to choose terror. Exploring the politics against a backdrop of traumatic events wars and betrayals it portrays the Jacobins as complex people who were influenced by emotions and p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Linton, Marisa, 1959- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford, U.K. : Oxford University Press, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction : political identity and the Jacobin leaders
  • The eighteenth-century man of virtue
  • 'How the face of things has changed'
  • New men for new politics : the first Jacobin leaders
  • The ascendancy of the Girondins and the path to war
  • Choosing sides : friends, factions, and conspirators in the new republic
  • A conspiracy of Girondins
  • Being Cincinnatus : the Jacobins in power
  • The enemy within
  • The Robespierrists and the republic of virtue
  • Final choices : Thermidor
  • Achieving authenticity
  • Conclusion : experiencing revolutionary politics : the lived contradictions of virtue, friendship, and authenticity.