Choosing Terror

Virtue, Friendship, and Authenticity in the French Revolution

(Author) Marisa Linton
Format: Hardcover
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Examines the leaders of the French Revolution - Robespierre and his fellow Jacobins - and particularly the gradual process whereby many of them came to 'choose terror', evolving from humanitarian idealists into ruthless politicians, ready to adopt the use of terror to defend the Revolution.

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Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Format:
Hardcover
Number of pages:
None
Language:
en
ISBN:
9780199576302
Publish year:
2013
Publish date:
June 20, 2013

Marisa Linton

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