The Terror, Volume Four

by François Furet

The problem of the Terror lies at the heart of any reflection upon the French Revolution and its implications for modern political culture. Contemporaries sought to grasp its meaning immediately after the fact as they struggled to explain an experience which seemed to defy the Revolution's fundamental assumption: that rational human intentions could erase the arbitrariness of history and institute a transparent social order. Since then, historians...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0080413870
• ISBN13: 9780080413877
• Release Date: June 1994
• Publisher: Pergamon
• Length: 428 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"