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Zusatztext Linton's work, in eschewing monocausal explanations of the Terror and highlighting the degree to which it was often the product of highly personal choices among individual politicians, is by necessity a complex account, with a large cast of characters and many narrative threads. As such, it offers readers a fuller understanding of the dynamics of radicalization and violence than has previously been understood. Through it, we gain insight into the emotional experience of the Revolution and the degree to which its leaders were both ruthless politicians and at the same time struggling for their survival against enormous odds. Informationen zum Autor Marisa Linton is a leading historian of the French Revolution. She is currently Reader in History at Kingston University. She has published widely on eighteenth-century France and the French Revolution. She is the author of The Politics of Virtue in Enlightenment France (2001) and the co-editor of Conspiracy in the French Revolution (2007). Klappentext Examines the leaders of the French Revolution - Robespierre and his fellow Jacobins - and particularly the gradual process whereby many of them came to 'choose terror', evolving from humanitarian idealists into ruthless politicians, ready to adopt the use of terror to defend the Revolution. Zusammenfassung Examines the leaders of the French Revolution - Robespierre and his fellow Jacobins - and particularly the gradual process whereby many of them came to 'choose terror', evolving from humanitarian idealists into ruthless politicians, ready to adopt the use of terror to defend the Revolution. Inhaltsverzeichnis Political Identity and the Jacobin Leaders 1: The Eighteenth-Century Man of Virtue 2: 'How the Face of Things Has Changed!' 3: New Men for New Politics: the First Jacobin Leaders 4: The Ascendancy of the Girondins and the Path to War 5: Choosing Sides: Friends, Factions and Conspirators in the New Republic 6: A Conspiracy of Girondins 7: Being Cincinnatus: The Jacobins in Power 8: The Enemy Within 9: The Robespierrists and the Republic of Virtue 10: Final Choices: Thermidor 11: Achieving Authenticity Conclusion ...
