Paperback
Publication Date: 15/07/1989
As it changed forever the political landscape of the modern world, the French Revolution was driven by a new type of personality: the confirmed, self-aware revolutionary. Maximilien Robespierre originated the role and embodied its ideological essence and extremes; the self that he projected to the people was equated with the ideals for which he strove. In creating this intellectual biography of so enigmatic a figure, David Jordan has stressed the words of the man about himself. With great imagination and insight, Jordan places Robespierre's self-conceptualization within the context of events and explains how Robespierre The Incorruptible--a man seen by contemporaries as virtuous--could not only equate justice with vengeance and demand it of the people, but also stand as its symbol before the world.
- ISBN:
- 9780226410371
- 9780226410371
- Category:
- General & world history
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 15-07-1989
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- The University of Chicago Press
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 316
- Dimensions (mm):
- 232x159x20mm
- Weight:
- 0.47kg
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Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900
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