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

मिस्टर एडम ज़ामोयस्की एक पुरस्कार विजेता ब्रिटिश इतिहासकार और सबसे अधिक बिकने वाले महाकाव्य "1812। नेपोलियन का मॉस्को पर घातक मार्च" और इसके सीक्वल "राइट्स ऑफ पीस। द फॉल ऑफ नेपोलियन एंड द कांग्रेस ऑफ वियना" के लेखक हैं। श्री ज़ामोयस्की ने यूरोपीय और विश्व इतिहास के प्रमुख आंकड़ों और पहलुओं पर कई अन्य प्रशंसित पुस्तकें प्रकाशित की हैं। पोलैंड का उनका व्यापक इतिहास, "द पोलिश वे", न केवल कई हफ्तों के लिए सर्वश्रेष्ठ विक्रेता सूची में प्रदर्शित हुआ जब यह 1987 में सामने आया, लेकिन तब से कभी भी प्रिंट से बाहर नहीं हुआ है। वह एक प्रतिष्ठित टिप्पणीकार और समीक्षक भी हैं, और उन्होंने सभी प्रमुख ब्रिटिश पत्रों और पत्रिकाओं में योगदान दिया है और इंग्लैंड, यूरोप और संयुक्त राज्य अमेरिका में व्यापक रूप से व्याख्यान दिया है।

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

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 their heads—were at risk. Driven by paranoia, they chose to fight back against every threat and insurgency, whether real or merely perceived, repressing their populaces through surveillance networks and violent, secretive police action. Europe, and the world, had entered a new era. In Phantom Terror, award-winning historian Adam Zamoyski argues that the stringent measures designed to prevent unrest had disastrous and far-reaching consequences, inciting the very rebellions they had hoped to quash. The newly established culture of state control halted economic development in Austria and birthed a rebellious youth culture in Russia that would require even harsher methods to suppress. By the end of the era, the first stirrings of terrorist movements had become evident across the continent, making the previously unfounded fears of European monarchs a reality. Phantom Terror explores this troubled, fascinating period, when politicians and cultural leaders from Edmund Burke to Mary Shelley were forced to choose sides and either support or resist the counterrevolutionary spirit embodied in the newly-omnipotent central states. The turbulent political situation that coalesced during this era would lead directly to the revolutions of 1848 and to the collapse of order in World War I. We still live with the legacy of this era of paranoia, which prefigured not only the modern totalitarian state but also the now preeminent contest between society’s haves and have nots. These tempestuous years of suspicion and suppression were the crux upon which the rest of European history would turn. In this magisterial history, Zamoyski chronicles the moment when desperate monarchs took the world down the path of revolution, terror, and world war.