Download or read book The Afterlives of the Terror: Dealing with the Legacies of Violence in Post-revolutionary France, 1794-1830s written by Ronen Steinberg and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of this dissertation is the legacies of state violence in post-revolutionary France. It examines how those who had lived through the Reign of Terror struggled to define its effects on themselves as well as on others, and to come up with adequate responses. What specific dilemmas arose in the aftermath of the Terror in France and how were these related to the revolution? What cultural, intellectual and legal frameworks were available to contemporaries in order to address the legacies left in the wake of an event of mass violence?