{"product_id":"phantom-terror-political-paranoia-and-the-creation-of-the-modern-state-17891848-9780465039890","title":"Phantom Terror: Political Paranoia and the Creation of the Modern State  1789-1848","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor the ruling and propertied classes of the late eighteenth century  the years following the French Revolution were characterized by intense anxiety. Monarchs and their courtiers lived in constant fear of rebellion  convinced that their power-and their heads-were at risk. Driven by paranoia  they chose to fight back against every threat and insurgency  whether real or merely perceived  repressing their populaces through surveillance networks and violent  secretive police action. Europe  and the world  had entered a new era.  In Phantom Terror  award-winning historian Adam Zamoyski argues that the stringent measures designed to prevent unrest had disastrous and far-reaching consequences  inciting the very rebellions they had hoped to quash. The newly established culture of state control halted economic development in Austria and birthed a rebellious youth culture in Russia that would require even harsher methods to suppress. By the end of the era  the first stirrings of terrorist movements had become evident across the continent  making the previously unfounded fears of European monarchs a reality.  Phantom Terror explores this troubled  fascinating period  when politicians and cultural leaders from Edmund Burke to Mary Shelley were forced to choose sides and either support or resist the counterrevolutionary spirit embodied in the newly-omnipotent central states. The turbulent political situation that coalesced during this era would lead directly to the revolutions of 1848 and to the collapse of order in World War I. We still live with the legacy of this era of paranoia  which prefigured not only the modern totalitarian state but also the now preeminent contest between societys haves and have nots.  These tempestuous years of suspicion and suppression were the crux upon which the rest of European history would turn. In this magisterial history  Zamoyski chronicles the moment when desperate monarchs took the world down the path of revolution  terror  and world war.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666142355509,"sku":"ByrdShop_0465039898","price":33.03,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780465039890.jpg?v=1782420768","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/phantom-terror-political-paranoia-and-the-creation-of-the-modern-state-17891848-9780465039890","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}