Murder in Aubagne : lynching, law, and justice during the French Revolution / D.M.G. Sutherland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sutherland, Donald (Donald M. G.), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Justice, Administration of--France--Aubagne--History--18th century.

Justice, Administration of.

Justice, Administration of--France--History--18th century.

Violence--France--Aubagne--History--18th century.

Violence.

Lynching--France--Aubagne--History--18th century.

Lynching.

Executions and executioners--France--Aubagne--History--18th century.

Executions and executioners.

Aubagne (France)--History--18th century.

Aubagne (France).

France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Atrocities.

France.

Aubagne (France)--Social conditions--18th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 316 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is a study of faction, lynching, murder, terror and counter-terror during the French Revolution. It examines factionalism in small towns like Aubagne near Marseille, and how this produced the murders and prison massacres of 1795-8. Another major theme is the convergence of lynching from below with official terror from above. Although the terror may have been designed to solve a national emergency in the spring of 1793, in southern France it permitted one faction to continue a struggle against its enemies, a struggle that had begun earlier over local issues like taxation and governance. It uses the techniques of micro-history to tell the story of the small town of Aubagne. It then extends the scope to places nearby like Marseille, Arles, and Aix-en-Provence. Along the way, it illuminates familiar topics like the activity of clubs and revolutionary tribunals and then explores largely unexamined areas like lynching, the sociology of faction, the emergence of theories of violent fraternal democracy, and the nature of the White Terror.

Contents:

Aubagne : an introduction to the problem

Structures and events

The olive festival

Aubagne's universe : Marseille, Aix, and Arles, 1789-1792

Murders in Provence

Vigilantism and federalism

Federalism

Terror in a small town : Aubagne

The revolution of the antiterrorists : vengeance, massacre, and justice

The Bande d'Aubagne.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-20010-5

1-283-33110-1

9786613331106

0-511-53403-5

0-511-57637-4

0-511-53434-5

0-511-53263-6

0-511-53172-9

0-511-53354-3

OCLC:

609834739