Researchers have examined the Great Fear of 1789, a period when unfounded rumors about an alleged famine orchestrated by the ...

Although the literature includes considerable abstract discussion of the roles of consensus and conflict in social life, there have been few attempts to measure them in concrete historical situations.

Radical liberalism, the execution of King Louis XVI and the Reign of Terror were not the only factors shaping the French Revolution of 1789, according to Prof. Ian ...

Since the rise of the internet and social media, society has become well-acquainted with the idea of "virality" as the rapid ...

Alongside its momentous legal proclamations, the Revolution sought to reinvent daily life, going so far as to alter time itself with a new revolutionary calendar: the September 1792 declaration of the ...

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