Popular Rumour in Revolutionary Paris, 1792-1794
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850
ISBN-10
331986047X
ISBN-13
9783319860473
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
CH
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 12th, 2019
Print length
267 Pages
Weight
362 grams
Dimensions
20.80 x 14.80 x 1.90 cms
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This book examines the impact of rumour during the French Revolution, offering a new approach to understanding the experiences of those who lived through it. Focusing on Paris during the most radical years of the Jacobin republic, it argues that popular rumour helped to shape perceptions of the Revolution and provided communities with a framework with which to interpret an unstable world. Lindsay Porter explores the role of rumour as a phenomenon in itself, investigating the way in which the informal authority of the ‘word on the street’ was subject to a range of historical and contemporary prejudices. Drawing its conclusions from police reports and other archival sources, this study examines the potential of rumour both to unite and to divide communities, as rumour and hearsay began to play an important role in defining and judging personal commitment to the Revolution and what it meant to be a citizen.
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