Historiography · Episodes 1–2–3–4–5–6 · published

Civil war, violence, and occupation

What becomes visible when the Revolution is organized around rival governments, occupied communities, and violence rather than a march toward national victory?

Johnson, Hoock, and Taylor recover different mechanisms of allegiance, governance, coercion, and survival.

Donald Johnson treats occupation as governance and daily experience. Holger Hoock centers physical violence and the political work of atrocity narratives. Alan Taylor places loyalty and civil war within a broad continental synthesis. Together they challenge stable binaries, but they do not imply that conviction was unreal or that rival regimes were morally identical.

Works in the debate

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