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049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aMiller, Mary Ashburn, _d1979- _e1
245	1	0	_aA natural history of revolution : _bviolence and nature in the French revolutionary imagination, 1789-1794 / _cMary Ashburn Miller.
260			_aIthaca [N.Y. : _bCornell University Press, _c(c)2011.
300			_a1 online resource (xv, 231 pages) : _billustrations
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505	0	0	_aOrdering a disordered world -- _tTerrible like an earthquake : violence as a "revolution of the earth" -- _tLightning strikes -- _tPure mountain, corruptive swamp -- _t"Mountain, become a volcano" -- _tConclusion : Revolutionary like nature, natural like a revolution.
520	0		_aHow did the French Revolutionaries explain, justify, and understand the extraordinary violence of their revolution? In debating this question, historians have looked to a variety of eighteenth-century sources, from Rousseau's writings to Old Regime protest tactics. A Natural History of Revolution suggests that it is perhaps on a different shelf of the Enlightenment library that we might find the best clues for understanding the French Revolution: namely, in studies of the natural world. In their attempts to portray and explain the events of the Revolution, political figures, playwrights, and journalists often turned to the book of nature: phenomena such as hailstorms and thunderbolts found their way into festivals, plays, and political speeches as descriptors of revolutionary activity. The particular way that revolutionaries deployed these metaphors drew on notions derived from the natural science of the day about regeneration, purgation, and balance. In examining a series of tropes (earthquakes, lightning, mountains, swamps, and volcanoes) that played an important role in the public language of the Revolution, A Natural History of Revolution reveals that understanding the use of this natural imagery is fundamental to our understanding of the Terror. Eighteenth-century natural histories had demonstrated that in the natural world, apparent disorder could lead to a restored equilibrium, or even regeneration. This logic drawn from the natural world offered the revolutionaries a crucial means of explaining and justifying revolutionary transformation. If thunder could restore balance in the atmosphere, and if volcanic eruptions could create more fertile soil, then so too could episodes of violence and disruption in the political realm be portrayed as necessary for forging a new order in revolutionary France.
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650		0	_aViolence _xPolitical aspects _zFrance _xHistory _y18th century.
650		0	_aNatural disasters _xPolitical aspects _zFrance _xHistory _y18th century.
650		0	_aRhetoric _xPolitical aspects _zFrance _xHistory _y18th century.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
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