Choosing terror : virtue, friendship, and authenticity in the French Revolution
Marisa Linton (Author)
'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 personal loyalties, as well as by ideology
History
1 online resource
9780191667589, 9781299749559, 0191667587, 1299749550
854998068
Political Identity and the Jacobin Leaders ; 1. The Eighteenth-Century Man of Virtue ; 2. 'How the Face of Things Has Changed!' ; 3. New Men for New Politics: the First Jacobin Leaders ; 4. The Ascendancy of the Girondins and the Path to War ; 5. Choosing Sides: Friends, Factions and Conspirators in the New Republic ; 6. A Conspiracy of Girondins ; 7. Being Cincinnatus: The Jacobins in Power ; 8. The Enemy Within ; 9. The Robespierrists and the Republic of Virtue ; 10. Final Choices: Thermidor ; 11. Achieving Authenticity ; Conclusion
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