Political Identity and the Jacobin Leaders
1: The Eighteenth-Century Man of Virtue
2: 'How the Face of Things Has Changed!'
3: New Men for New Politics: the First Jacobin Leaders
4: The Ascendancy of the Girondins and the Path to War
5: Choosing Sides: Friends, Factions and Conspirators in the New
Republic
6: A Conspiracy of Girondins
7: Being Cincinnatus: The Jacobins in Power
8: The Enemy Within
9: The Robespierrists and the Republic of Virtue
10: Final Choices: Thermidor
11: Achieving Authenticity
Conclusion
Marisa Linton is a leading historian of the French Revolution. She is currently Reader in History at Kingston University. She has published widely on eighteenth-century France and the French Revolution. She is the author of The Politics of Virtue in Enlightenment France (2001) and the co-editor of Conspiracy in the French Revolution (2007).
`Marisa Linton's new book is in the best traditions of such
careful, detailed, biographically-conscious evaluations.'
Dr Dave Andress, Reviews in History
`Marisa Linton's book covers five years of the revolution and
integrates a great deal of recent research into an interpretation
of the terror which will fascinate the general reader and encourage
specialists to extend research into some of the areas she
covers.'
Hugh Gough, Dublin Review of Books
`Linton manages to provide a very convincing account of her topic
of choice. One of the key strengths of the book is that Linton is
never prescriptive; likewise she presents a balanced account
throughout, weighing the ideological, strategic, emotional and
personal inclinations of the protagonists at every turn.'
Aurelien Mondon, Modern & Contemporary France
`Linton's rigorously researched and documented work renders in
intricate detail the personalities, motives, and interrelationships
of revolutionary figures caught up in the writhing landscape of the
great French political experiment ... Recommended.'
J.I. Donohoe, CHOICE
`Linton's chronological approach allows her to offer many insights
into the politicians' personal experience of the Terror'
Lynn Hunt, French History
`an extremely detailed and illuminating account.'
Aurelien Mondon, Modern and Contemporary France
`Marisa Linton's book has the great advantage of humanising the
principal actors of the Revolution, by restoring their emotions,
their friendships, and their virtues, as well as their anxieties
and enmities. More than this, it puts forward a new reading of the
slide into 'terrorism' produced by the fear that stalked them. Her
compelling narrative is distinguished by fair judgement and subtle
analysis.'
Annie Jourdan, La Vie des Idées
`In this important book, Marisa Linton shows with insight and care
how [Jean-Marie] Roland's self-image as a man of virtue and honesty
was shared among nearly all revolutionary politicians on the
Left.'
Gary Kates, American Historical Review
`Linton has given us a potent account of how individual
revolutionaries faced the Terror ... Linton offers a finely texted
and compelling play-by-play, as figures like Jacques-Pierre
Brissot, Georges Danton, Robespierre, and Jean Tallien wrestle over
each other's fates and the future of France.'
Suzanne Desan, Journal of Interdisciplinary History
`In her valuable and authoritative book on the Terror, Marisa
Linton focuses on why individuals engaged in acts of violence. Her
title, Choosing Terror, encapsulates her interpretation. She
reframes her question to ask why individuals who first chose
revolution later chose Terror.'
Jack R. Censer, Journal of Social History
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