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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Linton, Marisa, 1959- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford, U.K. : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Robespierre, Maximilien, > 1758-1794.
Robespierre, Maximilien, > 1758-1794
1789-1799
Jacobins > France.
Revolutionaries > France.
Révolutionnaires > France.
HISTORY > Europe > France.
Jacobins
Revolutionaries
Französische Revolution
Jakobiner
Politische Identität
Politische Verfolgung
Französische Revolution.
Jakobiner.
Politische Identität.
Politische Verfolgung.
Franska revolutionen 1789-1799.
France > History > Revolution, 1789-1799.
France > History > Reign of Terror, 1793-1794.
France
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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