Ending the French Revolution : violence, justice, and repression from the terror to Napoleon / Howard G. Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Howard G.

Contributor:

American Council of Learned Societies.

Series:

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence--France--History.

Violence.

Justice, Administration of--France--History.

Justice, Administration of.

Violence--History--France.

France--History--First Republic, 1792-1804.

France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 461 p. ) ill., maps ;

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Introduction

PART I: THE DIRECTORY AND THE PROBLEM OF ORDER

1. The Crisis of Republican Legitimacy

2. The Economy of Violence

3. Criminal Courts and Concepts of Order

4. Trial by Jury

PART II: THE MILITARIZATION OF REPRESSION

5. The Army and Domestic Security

6. Refining Terror and Justice after Fructidor

7. Strong-Arm Policing

8. Liberty versus Security in the War on Brigandage

PART III: LIBERAL AUTHORITARIANISM

9. Guerrilla War and Counter-insurgency

10. A Cycle of Violence in the South

11. Consular Crackdown

12. Security State and Dictatorship

Appendix A

Appendix B

Appendix C

Notes:

"Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies"--P. [ii].

Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-441) and index.

ISBN:

9780813925462

0813925460

Publisher Number:

2027/heb06681 hdl