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Revolution and Repression. A Review Article

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Dorinda Outram
Dorinda Outram
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Harvard University
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Forming National Consciousness
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , January 1992 , pp. 58 - 67
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1992

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21 Maybe this also explains something of the hesitancy with which Baker approaches the conceptualisation of the political culture of the Revolution (pp. 4–10). It would certainly not now be possible to approach the problem as conceptualised in Trahard, P., La sensibilite revolutionnaire (Paris: Alcan, 1936).Google Scholar

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