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SVEC, 2013:05

Introduction : revolutionary historiography, adrift or at large? The paradigmatic quest versus the exploration of experience / David Andress

I. Experiencing Revolutionary Transitions. French banned books in international perspective, 1770-1789 / Simon Burrows; Between trust and terror : patriotic giving in Revolutionary France / Charles Walton; Robespierre and violence / Peter McPhee; Reacting to Revolution : the political career(s) of J.-L. Tallien / Mette Harder; 'The most striking and the most terrible examples' : the experience of military justice in the armies of the French Revolution / Ian Germani

II. Experiences at the Heart of the Terror. Defence, collaboration, counter-attack : the role and exploitation of the printed word by victims of the Terror, 1793-1794 / Alex Fairfax-Cholmeley; Public experience of the Revolution : the national reaction to the proclamation of the Fête de l'etre suprême / Jonathan Smyth; Trauma before trauma : imagining the effects of the Terror in post-Revolutionary France / Ronen Steinberg; The stuff of nightmares : plots, assassinations and duplicity in the mental world of the Jacobin leaders, 1793-1794 / Marisa Linton

III. Revolutionary experiences beyond France. 'Rappelez-leur, pour mieux les persuader' : French political legitimation and historical discourse in Belgium (1792-1799) / Brecht DeSeure; 'The silly expressions of French revolution ... ' : the experience of the dissenting community in south-west Wales, 1797 / Ffion Jones; Thomas Paine : life during wartime / J. Ward Regan.

France > History > Revolution, 1789-1799.

France > Social life and customs > 1789-1815.

France > Social conditions > 18th century.

France > Politics and government > 18th century.