Phantom Terror: Political Paranoia and the Creation of the Modern State, 1789-1848 by Adam Zamoyski

Phantom Terror: Political Paranoia and the Creation of the Modern State, 1789-1848

Adam Zamoyski

592 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history politics slow-paced
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For the ruling and propertied classes of the late eighteenth century, the years following the French Revolution were characterized by intense anxiety. Monarchs and their courtiers lived in constant fear of rebellion, convinced that their power-and...

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