Robespierre was only 36 when he died, sent to the guillotine where he had sent thousands ahead of him. Only a few months before, this pale and fragile man, formal, anxious to the point of paranoia, steeled by deep-held principles, had held centre place in the new Festival of the Supreme Being, wearing his sky-blue coat and decreeing a new religion for France. Robespierre and th...(展开全部)

Robespierre was only 36 when he died, sent to the guillotine where he had sent thousands ahead of him. Only a few months before, this pale and fragile man, formal, anxious to the point of paranoia, steeled by deep-held principles, had held centre place in the new Festival of the Supreme Being, wearing his sky-blue coat and decreeing a new religion for France. Robespierre and th...(展开全部)

Between 1793 and 1794, thousands of French citizens were imprisoned and hundreds sent to the guillotine by a powerful dictatorship that claimed to be acting in the public interest. Only a few years earlier, revolutionaries had proclaimed a new era of tolerance, equal justice, and human rights. How and why did the French Revolution's lofty ideals of liberty, equality, and frater...(展开全部)

Between 1793 and 1794, thousands of French citizens were imprisoned and hundreds sent to the guillotine by a powerful dictatorship that claimed to be acting in the public interest. Only a few years earlier, revolutionaries had proclaimed a new era of tolerance, equal justice, and human rights. How and why did the French Revolution's lofty ideals of liberty, equality, and frater...(展开全部)

Festivals and the French Revolution--the subject conjures up visions of goddesses of Liberty, strange celebrations of Reason, and the oddly pretentious cult of the Supreme Being. Every history of the period includes some mention of festivals, although most historians have been content either to ridicule them as ineffectual or to bemoan them as repugnant examples of a sterile, o...(展开全部)

Throughout his life Karl Marx commented on the French Revolution, but never was able to realize his project of a systematic work on this immense event. This book assembles for the first time all that Marx wrote on this subject. Francois Furet provides an extended discussion of Marx's thinking on the revolution, and Lucien Calvie situates each of the selections, drawn from exist...(展开全部)

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哈里•狄金森，爱丁堡大学荣休教授、荣誉院士，自1980-2006年一直担任理查德•洛奇英国史讲席教授；曾经担任爱丁堡大学历史学系主任，爱丁堡大学研究生委员会主席。他是英国高等教育学会会员，两次担任英国皇家历史学会副主席（Vice-President）以及英国历史学会常务副主席，英国艺术和人文研究委员会历史研究组主席。研究领域是18世纪英国政治史，主要关注议会政治、大众政治和政治思想史，也研究这一时期的军事和海军史。其代表作有：《英国激进主义与法国大革命1789-1815》（British Radicalism and the French Revolution 1789-1815）、《沃尔波尔与辉格党的优势》（Walpole and the Whig Supremacy, London, 1973)）、《财产与自由》（Liberty and Prop...(展开全部)

哈里•狄金森，爱丁堡大学荣休教授、荣誉院士，自1980-2006年一直担任理查德•洛奇英国史讲席教授；曾经担任爱丁堡大学历史学系主任，爱丁堡大学研究生委员会主席。他是英国高等教育学会会员，两次担任英国皇家历史学会副主席（Vice-President）以及英国历史学会常务副主席，英国艺术和人文研究委员会历史研究组主席。研究领域是18世纪英国政治史，主要关注议会政治、大众政治和政治思想史，也研究这一时期的军事和海军史。其代表作有：《英国激进主义与法国大革命1789-1815》（British Radicalism and the French Revolution 1789-1815）、《沃尔波尔与辉格党的优势》（Walpole and the Whig Supremacy, London, 1973)）、《财产与自由》（Liberty and Prop...(展开全部)