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The 1789–1799 French Revolution loomed large over the course of the nineteenth century in Europe. Accordingly, this chapter explores some of the revolutionary contexts in continental Europe in which elite groups in the United Kingdom designated revolutionaries as terrorists and those revolutionaries acted according to those designations.
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According to Hobsbawm, there was fear that the 1789 French Revolution would provide a focus for a single Europe-wide revolution.
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More recently, terrorism associated with religious conservatism and the far right has been more prominent. This potentially reflects the changes in power dynamics, in which liberals have become more dominant, and groups associated with conservatism have lost status or feel their status is threatened.
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Hobsbawm suggests that European elites failed in their attempts to suppress revolutionary fervour across the continent, despite this being their central aim.
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Dunning, M. (2021). Functional Democratisation, Revolutions and Rebellion in the Nineteenth Century. In: Britain and Terrorism. Palgrave Studies on Norbert Elias. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72300-2_5
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