Fear, Anger, and Rebellion: Policing and Affect in Eighteenth-Century Paris.
Recent protests against police violence remind us just how volatile are the emotions inspired by law enforcement. Yet despite current interest in both the history of emotions and the history of policing, these two areas of research have for the most part remained separate. This article brings them t...
| Published in: | French Historical Studies Vol. 45; no. 4; pp. 591 - 625 |
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Duke University Press
Oct2022
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