The Afterlives of the Terror : : Facing the Legacies of Mass Violence in Postrevolutionary France / / Ronen Steinberg.

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• VerfasserIn: Steinberg, Ronen,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• 出版年: 2019
• 言語: English
• 物理的記述: 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 7 b&w halftones
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: Approaching the Aftermath of the Terror --; 1. Nomenclature: Naming a Difficult Past after 9 Thermidor --; 2. Accountability: The Case of Joseph Le Bon --; 3. Redress: Les Biens des Condamnés --; 4. Remembrance: The Mass Graves of the Terror --; 5. Haunting: The Ghostly Presence of the Terror --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Selected Bibliography --; Index
• 要約: 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 characterized 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 Afterlives of the Terror 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 twentieth century, Steinberg explores how the French tried, but ultimately failed, to leave this difficult past behind. He argues that it was the same democratizing, radicalizing dynamic that led to the violence of the Terror, which also gave rise to an unprecedented interrogation of how society is affected by events of enormous brutality. In this sense, the modern question of what to do with difficult pasts is one of the unanticipated consequences of the eighteenth century's age of democratic revolutions.
• フォーマット: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501739255; 9783110651980; 9783110610765; 9783110664232; 9783110610178; 9783110606195
• DOI: 10.1515/9781501739255?locatt=mode:legacy
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• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Ronen Steinberg.

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 characterized by silence and enforced collective amnesia....