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Non-Violence and the French Revolution - Political Demonstrations in Paris, 1787-1795 (Hardcover)
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Non-Violence and the French Revolution - Political Demonstrations in Paris, 1787-1795 (Hardcover)
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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 fact violent. Tracing the origins of
the political demonstration to the French Revolutionary period, he
reveals how Parisian protesters typically tried to avoid violence,
conducting campaigns predominantly through peaceful marches,
petitions, banquets and mass-meetings, which only rarely escalated
to physical force in their stand-offs with authorities. Out of over
750 events, no more than twelve percent appear to have resulted in
physical violence at any stage. Rewriting the political history of
the people of Paris, Non-Violence and the French Revolution sheds
new light on our understanding of Revolutionary France to show that
revolutionary sans-culottes played a pivotal role in developing the
democratically oriented protest techniques still used today.
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