Jeff Horn

The Making of a Terrorist

Alexandre Rousselin and the French Revolution

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is the story of how an educated young man decided that the French Revolution was worth the use of state-sponsored violence, chose to become a terrorist to protect the republic, and spent the next five decades defending his actions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780197529928
• ISBN-10: 0197529925
• Artikelnr.: 59585454

Autorenporträt

Jeff Horn is Professor of History at Manhattan College. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Economic Development in Early Modern France: The Privilege of Liberty, 1650-1820.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Introduction: A Romantic Remembers the French Revolution
* Chapter 1: Education for Change, 1773-92
* Chapter 2: The Making of a Terrorist, 1792-94
* Chapter 3: The Consequences of Terror, 1794-96
* Chapter 4: Rehabilitation: Political, Literary, and Social
(1795-1815)
* Chapter 5: Liberalism and the Press (1816-38)
* Chapter 6: Remembering and Forgetting the French Revolution: Memories
and Memoirs
* Conclusion: Satisfactions and Regrets of a Life in Revolution
* Appendix: Alexandre Rousselin and the Historians
* Timeline
* Notes
* Select Bibliography
* Index