The Terror in the French Revolution (Studies in European History) - Softcover

Gough, Hugh

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9780333601396: The Terror in the French Revolution (Studies in European History)

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ISBN 10: 0333601394 ISBN 13: 9780333601396

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 1997

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Why has the guillotine become one of the best known symbols of the French Revolution? Why did a revolution, which set out to provide French people with constitutional government and freedom in 1789, end up with a dictatorship that executed tens of thousands of them in 1793-4? Such questions have fascinated observers of the French Revolution since the 1790s and those concerning the Terror have remained the most controversial. This book examines the arguments, analyses the Terror's background and plots a path through the historical minefield that lies between the fall of the Bastille in 1789 and the work of the guillotine during the Terror. It puts the Terror into context and shows how events and ideas interacted to create an event that has haunted the political imagination of Europe ever since.

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'This is a pithy, readable textbook which acts as an excellent introduction to the reams of material which have been written on the terror.' - History, Journal of the Historical Association

Book Description:

A revised and updated short analysis of the causes and nature of French revolutionary terror, focussing on the years from 1789 to 1795

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