A Natural History of Revolution : : Violence and Nature in the French Revolutionary Imagination, 1789-1794 /

A Natural History of Revolution : : Violence and Nature in the French Revolutionary Imagination, 1789-1794 / / Mary Ashburn Miller.

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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 Revoluti...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Miller, Mary Ashburn,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.) :; 13 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Ordering a Disordered World
  • 2. Terrible Like an Earthquake: Violence as a "Revolution of the Earth"
  • 3. Lightning Strikes
  • 4. Pure Mountain, Corruptive Swamp
  • 5 . "Mountain, become a Volcano"
  • Conclusion: Revolutionary Like Nature, Natural Like a Revolution
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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