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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...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Oxford, U.K. :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.