Experiencing the French Revolution
By: edited by David Andress
Series: SVEC -- 2013:05; SVEC -- 2013:05.
Publisher: Voltaire Foundation
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780729410663
Subjects: History; Social life and customs; Social conditions
Description: Using a range of methodologies and a plurality of approaches, a team of experts offers fresh perspectives on the individual and collective experience of Revolution, both within and outside France.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-319) and index.
Table of contents: title: Revolutionary historiography, adrift or at large? The paradigmatic quest versus the exploration of experience / David Andress; title: French banned books in international perspective, 1770-1789 / Simon Burrows; title: Between trust and terror : patriotic giving in Revolutionary France / Charles Walton; title: Robespierre and violence / Peter McPhee; title: Reacting to Revolution : the political career(s) of J.-L. Tallien / Mette Harder; title: "The most striking and the most terrible examples" : the experience of military justice in the armies of the French Revolution / Ian Germani; title: Defence, collaboration, counter-attack : the role and exploitation of the printed word by victims of the Terror, 1793-1794 / Alex Fairfax-Cholmeley; title: Public experience of the Revolution : the national reaction to the proclamation of the Fête de l'etre suprême / Jonathan Smyth; title: Trauma before trauma : imagining the effects of the Terror in post-Revolutionary France / Ronen Steinberg; title: The stuff of nightmares : plots, assassinations and duplicity in the mental world of the Jacobin leaders, 1793-1794 / Marisa Linton; title: "Rappelez-leur, pour mieux les persuader" : French political legitimation and historical discourse in Belgium (1792-1799) / Brecht DeSeure; title: "The silly expressions of French revolution..." : the experience of the dissenting community in south-west Wales, 1797 / Ffion Jones; title: Thomas Paine : life during wartime / J. Ward Regan.