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Author Biard, Michel

Title Terror The French Revolution and Its Demons
Published Newark : Polity Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (256 p.)
Contents Cover -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- Note on the Text -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction: The Demons of Terror -- Chapter 1 The Terror -- a Concept Imposed by the Thermidorians -- Chapter 2 The Meaning of 'Terror' Before the Revolution -- Chapter 3 Terror in the Heart: The Weight of Fears and Emotions -- Chapter 4 The Revolution and its Opponents: Clashes and the Intensification of Repression -- Chapter 5 Creating Revolutionary Law: A Time of Political Exception -- Chapter 6 Terror in the Convention: Political Conflict as an Engine of 'Terror'
Chapter 7 Paris and the Vendée at the Heart of the 'Terror' -- Chapter 8 Who Lived and Who Died? The Difficult Balance Sheets of Terror -- Conclusion: How the Convention Reconstructed Itself After Thermidor -- Chronology for the Years of the National Convention -- Maps -- Some Further Reading -- Notes -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Form Electronic book
Author Linton, Marisa
Tackett, Timothy
ISBN 9781509550395
1509550399