Ending the French Revolution: Violence, Justice, and Repression from the Terror to Napoleon - Softcover

Brown, Howard G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813927293 ISBN 13: 9780813927299

Publisher: University of Virginia Press, 2008

Synopsis

For two centuries, the early years of the French Revolution have inspired countless democratic movements around the world. Yet little attention has been paid to the problems of violence, justice, and repression between the Reign of Terror and the dictatorship of Napoleon Bonaparte. In ""Ending the French Revolution"", Howard Brown analyzes these years to reveal the true difficulty of founding a liberal democracy in the midst of continual warfare, repeated coups d'etat, and endemic civil strife. By highlighting the role played by violence and fear in generating illiberal politics, Brown speaks to the struggles facing democracy in our own age. The result is a fundamentally new understanding of the French Revolution's disappointing outcome.

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About the Author

Howard G. Brown, Professor of History at Binghamton University, State University of New York, is the author of War, Revolution, and the Bureaucratic State: Politics and Army Administration in France, 1791-1799 and coeditor of Taking Liberties: Problems of a New Order from the French Revolution to Napoleon.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813927293
• ISBN 13: 9780813927299
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480