Donald Sutherland:
KP - People turned to violence due to the high stakes
- The stakes were so high. From the earliest days of 1789, ordinary people knew the breakdown was an opportunity to rid themselves of oppression.
- Rev. taught ordinary people to express their aspirations in democratic language.
Lynn Hunt:
KP - Examines from global, national and local contexts, believes it can be best understood from local context.
- Whilst aspiration for popular sovereignty clearly crossed borders, popular violence seems especially rooted in local contexts.
- Example - fall of the bastille appears to be an internal French affair, even a Parisian one, in terms of how it unfolded.
- Yet rev. political practices circulated just as surely did the declaration.
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