A Natural History of Revolution: Violence and Nature in the French Revolutionary Imagination

Description

Miller links the French Revolution and the violence of the Terror to eighteenth-century understandings of the natural world (for example, earthquakes, volcanoes, and mountains) by examining the rhetoric and writings of the revolutionaries themselves.

Creator

Miller, Mary Ashburn

Publisher

Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2011.

Contributor

Ermus, Cindy

Language

English

Type

Book
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