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CHOOSING TERROR P: Virtue, Friendship, and Authenticity in the French Revolution - Softcover

LINTON, Marisa

 
9780198733096: CHOOSING TERROR P: Virtue, Friendship, and Authenticity in the French Revolution

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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 terror', evolving from humanitarian idealists into ruthless politicians, ready to adopt the use of terror to defend the Revolution.

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Marisa Linton is a leading historian of the French Revolution. She is currently Reader in History at Kingston University. She has published widely on eighteenth-century France and the French Revolution. She is the author of The Politics of Virtue in Enlightenment France (2001) and the co-editor of Conspiracy in the French Revolution (2007).

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