- Paperback: 112 pages
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (June 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0333601394
- ISBN-13: 978-0333601396
- Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.8 x 1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 159 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,168,945 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'This is a pithy, readable textbook which acts as an excellent introduction to the reams of material which have been written on the terror.' - History, Journal of the Historical Association
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Why has the guillotine become one of the best known symbols of the French Revolution? Why did a revolution, which set out to provide French people with constitutional government and freedom in 1789, end up with a dictatorship that executed tens of thousands of them in 1793-4? Such questions have fascinated observers of the French Revolution since the 1790s and those concerning the Terror have remained the most controversial. This book examines the arguments, analyses the Terror's background and plots a path through the historical minefield that lies between the fall of the Bastille in 1789 and the work of the guillotine during the Terror. It puts the Terror into context and shows how events and ideas interacted to create an event that has haunted the political imagination of Europe ever since.
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
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Student Review, Jun 5 2000
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This review is from: The Terror in the French Revolution (Paperback)
This book deals with academic views of the Terror and also gives a chronological account of events, from 1789 to the fall of Robespierre in 1794. The author himself leans towards the more modern revisionist argument, that the Terror was the result of both circumstance and problems within the French political system. Hugh Gough balances the academic arguments and the account of historical events far more successfully than T.C.W. Blanning's "The French Revolution" from the same series, which becomes confused by presentation of conflicting arguments alongside the historical narrative, leaving me unsure which parts are reliable as evidence. That pitfall is avoided in this book.Overall, the book gives a good, concise picture of events and facilitates further reading on the subject, containing an excellent bibliography, each entry evaluated by a short sentence. As a student I found the book most useful, making much additional reading unnecessary, and it was also quite inexpensive.
I should probably declare that I was lectured on this course by Prof. Hugh Gough in University College Dublin. Even so, for any students studying the French Revolutionary era this book would prove invaluable.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Good case study, April 29 2005
By Happy Ed - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Terror in the French Revolution (Paperback)
This book is very interesting in detailing what went wrong with the revolution and how it turned against itself. The book deals in depth with the origin of the terror and its consequences. It would not be advised as a book for somebody looking for a general history of the revolution due to its narrow scope.
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