Twelve Who Ruled:
The Year of the Terror in the French Revolution
R. R. Palmer

One of Princeton University Press's Notable Centenary Titles.
With a new foreword by Isser Woloch

Paper | 2005 | $26.95 / £15.95
440 pp. | 5 x 8 | 10 halftones. 1 map.

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In its fifth year (1793-1794), the French Revolution faced a multifaceted crisis that threatened to overwhelm the Republic. In response the government instituted a revolutionary dictatorship and a "reign of terror," with a Committee of Public Safety at its head. R. R. Palmer's fascinating narrative follows the Committee's deputies individually and collectively, recounting and assessing their tumultuous struggles in Paris and their repressive missions in the provinces. A new foreword by Isser Woloch explains why this book has been, and deserves to remain, an enduring classic in French revolutionary studies.

R. R. Palmer (1909-2002) was Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University and a guest scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study. Isser Woloch is Moore Collegiate Professor of History at Columbia University.

Reviews:

Praise for Princeton's original edition: "[E]xcellently documented. . . . [O]ne of the best pictures that has ever been put together of the twelve men who made up [the] Committee of Public Safety. . . . There is fine scholarship here."--New York Times

Praise for Princeton's original edition: "[A]n excellent book on the administration of France by the great Committee of Public Safety. . . . [Palmer] has made the members of the Committee living characters and the events of the period real occurrences."--American Political Science Review

Other Princeton books by R. R. Palmer:

• Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800, Volume 1: The Challenge.
• Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800, Volume 2: The Struggle.
• J. B. Say: An Economist in Troubled Times.

Series:

• Princeton Classic Editions

Subject Area:

• European History

Previous paperback published in 1970

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