Ending the French Revolution Violence, Justice, and Repression from the Terror to Napoleon

Name: Ending the French Revolution Violence, Justice, and Repression from the Terror to Napoleon
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ISBN: 9780813927299

ISBN-10: 0813927293

ISBN-13: 9780813927299

Edition: 2008

Authors: Howard G. Brown

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"Filled with critical insights, Brown's revisionist study utilizes an impressive array of archival sources, some only recently cataloged, to support his thesis that the French Revolution survived until 1802 and the Consulate regime.... This volume should be a priority for all historians and serious students interested in modern French history. Summing Up: Essential." -- "Choice " "What Brown has done is to put all historians of the French Revolution in his debt by the thoroughness with which he explores an important aspect of the complex and interrelated problems posed by any attempt to create a new social and moral order based on principles that could prove to be self-contradictory and…

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List price: $27.50
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Publication date: 11/29/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 6.20" wide x 9.20" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Directory and the Problem of Order



The Crisis of Republican Legitimacy



The Economy of Violence



Criminal Courts and Concepts of Order



Trial by Jury



The Militarization of Repression



The Army and Domestic Security



Refining Terror and Justice after Fructidor



Strong-Arm Policing



Liberty versus Security in the War on Brigandage



Liberal Authoritarianism



Guerrilla War and Counter-insurgency



A Cycle of Violence in the South



Consular Crackdown



Security State and Dictatorship


Appendix A


Appendix B


Appendix C


Notes


Bibliography


Index