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The afterlives of the Terror : facing the legacies of mass violence in post-revolutionary France /

Steinberg, Ronen, 1970-

The afterlives of the Terror : facing the legacies of mass violence in post-revolutionary France / Ronen Steinberg. - xiii, 222 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-214) and index.

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.

"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"--

9781501739248

2018047446


Political violence--History--France--18th century.


France--History--Psychological aspects.--Reign of Terror, 1793-1794
France--History--Influence.--Revolution, 1789-1799
France--Social conditions--18th century.