Blood in the city
violence and revelation in Paris, 1789-1945
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Publication
2001 - Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
98,750 words, Guess
Page Count
395 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivebloodincityviole00burt
- Internet Archivebloodincityviole0000burt
- ISBN-100801438683
- ISBN-139780801438684
- Goodreads2148866
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- LibraryThing1713056
- Library of Congress Control Number2001001239
- OCLC Control Number46353319
- Better World Books9780801438684
- Open LibraryOL3937553M
Classifications
- DDC944/.36
- LCCDC723 .B87 2001
- LCCDC723.B87 2001
Description
"The terror of 1793-94, the Paris Commune of 1871, the Dreyfus Affair - explosions of violence punctuated French history from the start of the Revolution until the Liberation at the close of World War II. The scholar Richard D. E. Burton here offers an original account of these outbursts, concluding that recourse to political violence was not occasional and abnormal but rather the usual pattern in French history.". "Instead of adhering to conventional chronological lines, Blood in the City is structured topologically around a number of major Parisian "sites of memory," including Place de la Concorde, Sacre-Coeur, and the Eiffel Tower. For thirty years Burton has visited and revisited Paris, criss-crossing the streets on foot, and lived with great nineteenth- and twentieth-century literary depictions of the city. Drawing on historical, literary, visual, anthropological, and psychological sources, he develops a wide-ranging account of violence in modern French politics. In so doing, he provides powerful insights into political violence, scapegoating, the idea of sacrifice, and the widespread French obsession with conspiracy."--BOOK JACKET.
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