@article{310146,
      author = {Andress, David,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/310146},
      title = {The Terror : the merciless war for freedom in  revolutionary France /},
      publisher = {Farrar, Straus, and Giroux,},
      abstract = {For two hundred years, the Terror has haunted the  imagination of the West. The descent of the French  Revolution from rapturous liberation into an orgy of  apparently pointless bloodletting has been the focus of  countless reflections on the often malignant nature of  humanity and the folly of revolution. David Andress, a  leading historian of the French Revolution, presents a  radically different account of the Terror. The violence, he  shows, was a result of dogmatic and fundamentalist  thinking: dreadful decisions were made by groups of people  who believed they were still fighting for freedom but whose  survival was threatened by famine, external war, and  counter-revolutionaries within the fledgling new state.  Urgent questions emerge from Andress's reassessment: When  is it right to arbitrarily detain those suspected of  subversion? When does an earnest patriotism become the  rationale for slaughter? This new interpretation draws  troubling parallels with today's political an religious  fundamentalism.--From publisher description.},
      recid = {310146},
      pages = {441 p., [16] p. of plates :},
      address = {New York :},
      year = {2006},
}