Ending the French Revolution
Violence, Justice and Repression from the Terror to Napoleon
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9800501 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Norman Hampson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 121 |
| Issue | 494 |
| Pages | 1475-1477 |
| Publication date | 2006-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The English Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-8266 • E-ISSN: 1477-4534 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ehr/cel306 |
| OpenAlex | W2007903755 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
BROWN argues in this book that the French Revolution involved the destruction of a traditional society that incorporated wide-ranging local variations. These were the product of many different but interrelated elements such as local geography, past history and unpredictable factors such as the temperament of local magnates and the presence—or absence—of traditional family vendettas. In its place, the revolutionaries, whom he is inclined to assimilate under the general term of ‘Jacobins’, aspired to create a new kind of universal society, based on abstract principles that were believed to be morally self-evident, which would serve the interests of society as a whole and further the spiritual and material ends of its individual members. He describes this as the replacement of the principles of Hobbes by those of Rousseau and by what he calls ‘liberal democracy’. Such an abrupt transformation of both attitudes and institutions provoked a considerable amount of opposition. Those who rejected it, on social, political or religious grounds, were often disposed to resist it by force, and the result of their reactions was to create a problem of security whose consequences shared many common characteristics, although their causes and intensity showed wide local variations. He suggests that this threat of social disintegration underlay all the problems of politics, religion and national defence that have been seen as the immediate causes of the collapse of the Directory
Democracy · Economic Justice · Feudalism · Opposition (politics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · European Political History Analysis · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · Law
The nation does not even know what a jury is’
The Crisis of the Public Monument
Thomas Paine e a Revolução Francesa
Terrorism and revolutionary violence
Liberty and Death
The politics of time during the Napoleonic Consulate, 1799–1804
Civilization and Its Discontents
The Burning of Bédoin
Longing for the Beheaded Father
Policing Muslims under the Directory
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2025 (20) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |