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The afterlives of the terror : facing the legacies of mass violence in postrevolutionary France /

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The book is about how those who experienced the violence of the French Revolution struggled to come to terms with it in the following decades.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Steinberg, Ronen, 1970- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
France > History > Reign of Terror, 1793-1794 > Psychological aspects.
Political violence > France > History > 18th century.
France > History > Revolution, 1789-1799 > Influence.
France > Social conditions > 18th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : approaching the aftermath of the Terror
  • Nomenclature : naming a difficult past after 9 Thermidor
  • Accountability : the case of Joseph Le Bon
  • Redress : les biens des condamnés
  • Remembrance : the mass graves of the Terror
  • Haunting : the ghostly presence of the Terror.