Jean-Paul Marat : prophet of terror /
In this monumental work, influential historian Keith Michael Baker takes readers on a journey through the life of Jean-Paul Marat (1743-1793). Starting with Marat's family and upbringing, Baker then sheds light into Marat's early years in England, his career as an aspiring scientist (inclu...
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
[2025].
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| Series: | The life of ideas
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The Swiss family Mara
- "A little man...a quick eye". On the move ; Making it in London ; Locating the soul ; Wilkes and liberty ; The chains of slavery ; Doctor to the incurable
- Agonistic science. Big game ; A new Newton? ; Following Franklin ; The fight for glory ; Destination Madrid?
- Thymotic politics. Revolutionary rebirth ; The people's eye ; Enemies of the people ; How many heads? ; Remember Nancy ; Mobilizing the people ; Salus populi ; Repression, revision, despair
- The first modern populist. A machine that would not work ; The people's revolution ; The monster and the mountain ; To kill a king? ; A party of one ; The Marat movement ; Purge
- Conclusion: A revolutionary diptych.