The Afterlives of the Terror: Facing the Legacies of Mass Violence in Postrevolutionary France

Author/Contributor(s):	Steinberg, Ronen
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Date:	09/15/2019
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

The Afterlives of the Terror explores how those who experienced the mass violence of the French Revolution struggled to come to terms with it. Focusing on the Reign of Terror, Ronen Steinberg challenges the presumption that its aftermath was characterized by silence and enforced collective amnesia. Instead, he shows that there were painful...