Non-violence and the French Revolution : political demonstrations in Paris, 1787 - 1795
Historians of the French Revolution have traditionally emphasised the centrality of violence to revolutionary protest. However, Micah Alpaugh reveals instead the surprising prevalence of non-violent tactics to demonstrate that much of the popular action taken in revolutionary Paris was not in fact v...
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press,
2015
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| Schlagworte: | Demonstrations Protest movements Nonviolence Frankreich Paris Protestbewegung Gewaltlosigkeit Französische Revolution Geschichte 1787-1795 Demonstration |
| Umfang: | VIII, 292 S. |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Marching in Paris, from the Old Regime to the Revolution; 2. Political demonstrations and the politics of escalation in 1789; 3. From rapprochement to radicalism, 1790-1; 4. War, collaborative protest, and the 1792 Republican movement; 5. Fraternal protest in a time of terror, August 1792-September 1793; 6. Reasserting collective action: 1794-5; 7. Moderate and conservative marches in Revolutionary Paris; Conclusion; Appendix: Parisian protests, 1787-95; Bibliography; Index.