The afterlives of the Terror facing the legacies of mass violence in postrevolutionary France
'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 characterised by silence and enforced collecti...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca
Cornell University Press
2020, 2020
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| Series: | Cornell scholarship online / Cornell scholarship online
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| Collection: | Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | '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 characterised by silence and enforced collective amnesia. Instead, he shows that there were painful, complex, and sometimes surprisingly honest debates about how to deal with its legacies. As the book shows, revolutionary leaders, victims' families, and ordinary citizens argued about accountability, retribution, redress, and commemoration. Drawing on the concept of transitional justice and the scholarship on the major traumas of the 20th century, Steinberg explores how the French tried, but ultimately failed, to leave this difficult past behind |
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| Item Description: | Previously issued in print: 2019 |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource illustrations (black and white) |
| ISBN: | 9781501739255 |