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Record Nr.

UNINA9910524680403321

Autore

Steinberg Ronen <1970->

Titolo

The Afterlives of the Terror : Facing the Legacies of Mass Violence in Postrevolutionary France / / Ronen Steinberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca [New York] : , : Cornell University Press, , 2019

©2019

ISBN

1-5017-3925-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 222 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Cornell scholarship online

Disciplina

944.04/4

Soggetti

Political violence - France - History - 18th century

Electronic books.

France Social conditions 18th century

France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Influence

France History Reign of Terror, 1793-1794 Psychological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 condamnes -- Remembrance : the mass graves of the Terror -- Haunting : the ghostly presence of the Terror.

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--