Non-violence and the French Revolution : political demonstrations in Paris, 1787-1795 / Micah Alpaugh.
"Historians of the French Revolution have traditionally emphasised the centrality of violence to revolutionary protest. However, Micah Alpaugh reveals instead the surprising prevalence of non-violent tactics to demonstrate that much of the popular action taken in revolutionary Paris was not in...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. Marching in Paris, from the Old Regime to the Revolution
- 2. Political demonstrations and the politics of escalation in 1789
- 3. From rapprochement to radicalism, 1790-1791
- 4. War, collaborative protest, and the 1792 Republican movement
- 5. Fraternal protest in a time of terror, August 1792-September 1793
- 6. Reasserting collective action: 1794-1795
- 7. Moderate and conservative marches in Revolutionary Paris
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Parisian protests, 1787-1795.