A Natural History of Revolution: Violence and Nature in the French Revolutionary Imagination, 1789–1794
ISBN: 9780801460845
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter



The use of nature metaphors in explaining and justifying the excesses of the French Revolutions.


Mary Ashburn Miller is an ACLS New Faculty Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Humanities at Reed College.

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