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The Terror
David Andress
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Description for The Terror
Paperback. In this wholly definitive work, David Andress examines the The French Revolution: the birth of a new ideological age and the bloody emergence of Europe's first political terrorists. Num Pages: 448 pages, Section: 16, b/w. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 128 x 29. Weight in Grams: 324.
The French Revolution marks the foundation of the modern political world. It was in the crucible of the Revolution that the political forces of conservatism, liberalism and socialism began to find their modern form, and it was the Revolution that first asserted the claims of universal individual rights, on which our current understandings of citizenship are based. But the Terror was, as much as anything else, a civil war, and such wars are always both brutal and complex. The guillotine in Paris claimed some 1,500 official victims, but executions of captured counter-revolutionary rebels ran into the tens of thousands, and ... Read more
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Publisher
Abacus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349115887
SKU
V9780349115887
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About David Andress
David Andress is a leading scholar of the French Revolution and an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Reviews for The Terror
David Andres s' important new book is a major contribution in our efforts to rethink the French Revolution . . . It is also exceptionally well-written
Timothy Tacket, author of BECOMING A REVOLUTIONARY AND WHEN THE KING TOOK FLIGHT
Commendably fair and even-handed . . . A lucid study
Munro Price, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
The most authoritative ... Read more
Timothy Tacket, author of BECOMING A REVOLUTIONARY AND WHEN THE KING TOOK FLIGHT
Commendably fair and even-handed . . . A lucid study
Munro Price, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
The most authoritative ... Read more