Mary Ashburn Miller: 1 book
A Natural History of Revolution
Violence and Nature in the French Revolutionary Imagination, 1789–1794
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How did the French Revolutionaries explain, justify, and understand the extraordinary violence of their revolution? In debating this question, historians have looked to a variety of eighteenth-century sources, from Rousseau’s writings to Old Regime protest tactics. A Natural History of Revolution...
