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Between 1793 and 1794, thousands of French citizens were imprisoned and hundreds sent to the guillotine by a powerful dictatorship that claimed to be acting in the public interest. Only a few years earlier, revolutionaries had proclaimed a new era of tolerance, equal justice, and human rights. How and why did the French Revolutions lofty ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity descend into violence and terror?

By attending to the role of emotions in propelling the Terror, Tackett steers a more nuanced course than many previous historians have managedImagined terrors, asTackett very usefully reminds us, can have even more political potency than real ones.
David A. Bell, The Atlantic

[Tackett] analyzes the mentalité of those who became `terrorists in 18th-century FranceIn emphasizing weakness and uncertainty instead of fanatical strength as the driving force behind the TerrorTackettcontributes to an important realignment in the study of French history.
Ruth Scurr, The Spectator

[A] boldly conceived and important bookThis 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.
Alan Forrest, Times Literary Supplement

Between 1793 and 1794, thousands of French citizens were imprisoned and hundreds sent to the guillotine by a powerful dictatorship that claimed to be acting in the public interest. Only a few years earlier, revolutionaries had proclaimed a new era of tolerance, equal justice, and human rights. How and why did the French Revolutions lofty ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity descend into violence and terror?

By attending to the role of emotions in propelling the Terror, Tackett steers a more nuanced course than many previous historians have managedImagined terrors, asTackett very usefully reminds us, can have even more political potency than real ones.
David A. Bell, The Atlantic

[Tackett] analyzes the mentalité of those who became `terrorists in 18th-century FranceIn emphasizing weakness and uncertainty instead of fanatical strength as the driving force behind the TerrorTackettcontributes to an important realignment in the study of French history.
Ruth Scurr, The Spectator

[A] boldly conceived and important bookThis 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.
Alan Forrest, Times Literary Supplement

Über den Autor
Timothy Tackett
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780674979895
ISBN-10: 0674979893
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Tackett, Timothy
Hersteller: Harvard University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 233 x 156 x 38 mm
Von/Mit: Timothy Tackett
Erscheinungsdatum: 20.11.2017
Gewicht: 0,537 kg
Artikel-ID: 108789600

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