Date of Award
Spring 2020
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Major
Political Science
First Advisor
Reo Matsuzaki
Abstract
Revolutions are pivotal event in political history, compressing far-reaching social changes into the space of a few years. The French is the best understood revolution, and yet political scientists have focused more on the causes of revolution, its initial phase, and the consequences. This scholarship ignores the Reign of Terror, and revolutionary violence more broadly, despite the central importance of violence in shaping the course of revolutions. This thesis breaks down the Reign of Terror as an exemplary phase of violence via three broad ecumenical theoretical approaches, and in so doing makes vital connection between social and political developments on the one hand, and violence and the course of history and theory on the other.
Recommended Citation
Turek, Aidan, "The Architecture of Violence: the Reign of Terror and the Character of Bloodshed". Senior Theses, Trinity College, Hartford, CT 2020.
Trinity College Digital Repository, https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/theses/848
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Comments
Senior thesis completed at Trinity College, Hartford CT for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Political Science.