Challenging classical histories of the French Revolution, this revisionist work argues that any history and analysis of the period must give as much weight to counterrevolution as to revolution itself.  Sutherland demonstrates that the effects of the Revolution varied greatly according to regional economies, social structures, and religious affiliations.  The book examines how massive counterrevolutionary movements profoundly affected the course of the Revolution, leading to the failure of constitutional government and, ultimately, to an elitist dictatorship that paved the way for many of the struggles of the 19th century.  Synthesizing an abundance of information in a refreshingly new light, students and scholars will welcome this bold study on a decisive twenty-five years in French and world history.

France 1789-1815: Revolution and counterrevolution (Fontana history of modern France)

History

Sutherland, D. M. G.

Europe

Fontana Press / Collins

<p>This 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.</p>

Murder in Aubagne: Lynching, Law, and Justice during the French Revolution

Cambridge University Press

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France 1789-1815: Revolution and counterrevolution (Fontana history of modern France)

Murder in Aubagne: Lynching, Law, and Justice during the French Revolution

Murder in Aubagne: Lynching, Law, and Justice during the French Revolution