The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution - Hardcover

Tackett, Timothy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674736559 ISBN 13: 9780674736559

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2015

Synopsis

How did the French Revolution's ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity descend into violence and terror? Timothy Tackett offers a new interpretation of this turning point in world history. Penetrating the mentality of Revolutionary elites on the eve of the Terror, he reveals how suspicion and mistrust escalated and helped propel their actions.

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Review

A wonderful book, a veritable masterpiece. Tackettfinds new sources to answer one of the oldest questions about the French Revolution: why did the deputies of the National Assembly put the Terror in place? In a captivating synthesis of the entire Revolution, he captures its drama and emotion, the fluctuating joys, anxieties, and fears of those who lived through unprecedented events. --David Garrioch, author of "The Making of Revolutionary Paris"

In Tackett s boldly conceived and important book, (...) he seeks to explain a key political process, one which fundamentally transformed the character of the Revolution and, in the eyes of many, betrayed its most basic principles. This is a superb study of pressures that came to bear on individual politicians... This is a thought-provoking book that makes a major contribution to our understanding of terror and political intolerance, and also to the history of emotions more generally. It helps expose the complexity of a revolution that cannot be adequately understood in terms of principles alone. -- Times Literary Supplement

About the Author

Timothy Tackett is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Irvine.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674736559
• ISBN 13: 9780674736559
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 480