Palmer, R. R.: Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of the Terror in the French Revolution.(Book review)
Perspectives on Political Science, June, 2006 by Frost, Bryan-Paul
Palmer, R. R. Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of the Terror in the French Revolution Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press Classic Editions 440 pp., $24.95, ISBN 0-691-12187-7 Publication Date: August 2005
It is easy to understand why R. R. Palmer's classic study of the Committee for Public Safety (CPS) (1793-94) has been in print for more than sixty years, and why it is now being reissued in the Princeton Classic Edition series. In clear, forceful prose, Palmer delivers to us a judicious but compelling narrative of who the twelve members of the CPS were individually, how they interacted collectively, and what they did and did not accomplish during those harrowing years when the very existence of Revolutionary France was at stake. Thankfully, Palmer (who...
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