Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Cuoco, VincenzoHG
• Bruce Haddock
• MASSIMO CIAVOLELLA
• Filippo Sabetti
• LUIGI BALLERINI
• Sabetti, Filippo

Titel

Ideas of Terrorism

Ist Teil von

• A Historical Essay on the Neapolitan Revolution of 1799, 2014, p.168-170

Ort / Verlag

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The history of a revolution is not so much the history of its facts as that of its ideas. As a revolution is no more than the effect of a people’s common ideas, those who through repeated observation come to know the course of such ideas may be said to have gained every profit from its history. For individuals, the history of facts is the same as the history of ideas, for individuals cannot help but be consistent with themselves. But when nations operate en masse (which is what happens in a revolution), there are inconsistencies and uniformities, similarities and