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A Natural History of Revolution : Violence and Nature in the French Revolutionary Imagination, 1789-1794 /
How did the French Revolutionaries explain, justify, and understand the extraordinary violence of their revolution? In debating this question, historians have looked to a variety of eighteenth-century sources, from Rousseau's writings to Old Regime protest tactics. A Natural History of Revoluti...
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Ithaca [N.Y.] :
Cornell University Press,
2011.
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Table des matières:
- Ordering a disordered world
- Terrible like an earthquake : violence as a "revolution of the earth"
- Lightning strikes
- Pure mountain, corruptive swamp
- "Mountain, become a volcano"
- Conclusion : Revolutionary like nature, natural like a revolution.