The Terror, Volume Four

This volume has been designed to bring together contributions by representatives of a wide range of historiographical approaches to the French revolution. It seeks, in the wake of the heated historical debates of recent years, to reopen old questions and to formulate new ones, to suggest how the problem of understanding the Terror is being approached, or might be approached, two hundred years after the event. In a century more than ever aware of the fragility of the boundaries between citizenship and victimization, the topic reatains its challenge for historical comprehension - and its profound relevance to the enduring question of the nature and conditions of democracy. This fourth and final volume of the French Revolution and the Creation of Modern Political Culture series draws clear inspiration from the earlier volumes. It has as its aim to advance, by focusing more precisely on the period of the terror, the explanation of the nature and implications of the political culture of the French revolution the early volumes initiated.