- Tytuł:
- Popular Justice or Why Were There No Sans-Culottes in America?
- Autorzy:
- Dobrowolski, Paweł T.
- Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/953841.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2017
- Wydawca:
- Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla PAN w Warszawie
- Tematy:
-
Revolution
Boston
Paris
massacre
Bastille
violence - Opis:
- The article applies a comparative perspective to assess the onset of the two ‘successful’ eighteen-century revolutions – the American and the French. The Boston events of March 1770 are compared with those of Paris in July 1789: in both cases ‘the people’ faced the soldiers, riots and politically generated violence led to bloodshed, but the subsequent actions of the insurgents showed a marked difference in understanding the sense of justice and the ways of promoting revolutionary discourse. Boston patriots relied on the English-based system of common law, were ready to condemn their own radicals and did not wish plebeian justice to prevail. They hoped for a perestroika, not for a revolution. The French – finding no culprits to condemn, and having as of yet no legal institutions of their own to use – were willing to disregard the legal continuity of the state and to search for more radical solutions.
- Źródło:
-
Kwartalnik Historyczny; 2017, 124, 1
0023-5903 - Pojawia się w:
- Kwartalnik Historyczny
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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