Terror: The French Revolution and Its Demons

by Marisa Linton and Michel Biard

Book Overview

At the heart of how history sees the French Revolution lies the enigma of the Terror. How did this archetypal revolution, founded on the principles of liberty and equality and the promotion of human rights, arrive at circumstances where it carried out the violent and terrible repression of its opponents? The guillotine, initially designed to be a 'humane' form of capital punishment, became a formidable instrument of political repression and left a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150954836X
• ISBN13: 9781509548361
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"