Wonderful article and glad to have discovered you are on Substack! I'm in the early stages of thinking through a book on how the concept of the apocalypse changed during the 1600-1860 period - from a primarily religious way of thinking about the end of the world to a political or technological framing (such as Samuel Butler writing about humanity being destroyed by thinking machines in the 1860s). Clearly I will need to think a *lot* about the French Revolution as an inflection point.
Wonderful article and glad to have discovered you are on Substack! I'm in the early stages of thinking through a book on how the concept of the apocalypse changed during the 1600-1860 period - from a primarily religious way of thinking about the end of the world to a political or technological framing (such as Samuel Butler writing about humanity being destroyed by thinking machines in the 1860s). Clearly I will need to think a *lot* about the French Revolution as an inflection point.
Thanks! Maybe try Colin Jones's The Great Nation as a good starting point for the Old Regime and the French Revolution.