The Afterlives of the Terror: Facing the Legacies of Mass Violence in Postrevolutionary France

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Ronen Steinberg

The Afterlives of the Terror

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Facing the Legacies of Mass Violence in Postrevolutionary France

Ronen Steinberg

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English

Cornell University Press
15 September 2019

Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; French Revolution; Violence in society

The Afterlives of the Terror explores how those who experienced the mass violence of the French Revolution struggled to come to terms with it. Focusing on the Reign of Terror, Ronen Steinberg challenges the presumption that its aftermath was characterized by silence and enforced collective amnesia. Instead, he shows that there were painful, complex, and sometimes surprisingly honest debates about how to deal with its legacies.

As The Afterlives of the Terror shows, revolutionary leaders, victims' families, and ordinary citizens argued about accountability, retribution, redress, and commemoration. Drawing on the concept of transitional justice and the scholarship on the major traumas of the twentieth century, Steinberg explores how the French tried, but ultimately failed, to leave this difficult past behind. He argues that it was the same democratizing, radicalizing dynamic that led to the violence of the Terror, which also gave rise to an unprecedented interrogation of how society is affected by events of enormous brutality. In this sense, the modern question of what to do with difficult pasts is one of the unanticipated consequences of the eighteenth century's age of democratic revolutions.

Thanks to generous funding from Michigan State University and its participation in TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem), the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access (OA) volumes, available on the Cornell University Press website and other Open Access repositories.

By: Ronen Steinberg
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781501739248
ISBN 10: 1501739247
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 15 September 2019
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Approaching the Aftermath of the Terror 1. Nomenclature: Naming a Difficult Past after 9 Thermidor 2. Accountability: The Case of Joseph Le Bon 3. Redress: Les Biens des Condamnés 4. Remembrance: he Mass Graves of the Terror 5. Haunting: The Ghostly Presence of the Terror Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography Index

Ronen Steinberg is an Assistant Professor of History at Michigan State University.

Reviews for The Afterlives of the Terror: Facing the Legacies of Mass Violence in Postrevolutionary France

Steinberg's excellent new book looks at the aftermath of the Reign of Terror in France through the modern lens of transitional justice. * Choice * Steinberg's engaging history will profitably engage French Revolutionists and scholars of trauma and mass violence. * American Historical Review * Steinberg's book imaginatively brings together different themes and sources, from property disputes to ghost stories, public trials to medical disputes. It also engages with multiple historiographies, including those on secularization, the centrality of violence to the revolution, the history of emotion, and the dynamics of transitional justice. The book as a whole is particularly effective in unsettling any sense of neat divisions between the Revolution and the historical moments that preceded and followed it. * Journal of Modern History *