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Pages: 260
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Robespierre's defense of the French Revolution remains one of the most powerful and unnerving justifications for political violence ever written, and has extrao
Choosing Terror
Language: en
Pages: 334
Authors: Marisa Linton
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-20 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

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Examines the leaders of the French Revolution - Robespierre and his fellow Jacobins - and particularly the gradual process whereby many of them came to 'choose
Goodness Beyond Virtue
Language: en
Pages: 428
Authors: Patrice L. R. Higonnet
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Who were the Jacobins and what are Jacobinism's implications for today? In a book based on national and local studies--on Marseilles, Nîmes, Lyons, and Paris--
Fatal Purity
Language: en
Pages: 452
Authors: Ruth Scurr
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
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Against the dramatic backdrop of the French Revolution, historian Scurr tracks Robespierre's evolution from lawyer to revolutionary leader. This is a fascinatin
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Language: en
Pages: 273
Authors: Otto Scott
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It is a perverse but almost inescapable phenomenon in the history of violent revolutions that after the first heroic days a colorless bureaucrat will inherit th