Choosing Terror: Virtue, Friendship, and Authenticity in the French Revolution

by Marisa Linton

Book Overview

Choosing Terror: Virtue, Friendship and Authenticity in the French Revolution 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'. These men led the Jacobin Club between 1789 and 1794, and were attempting to establish new democratic politics in France. Exploring revolutionary politics through the eyes of these leaders, and against a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198733097
• ISBN13: 9780198733096
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"