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For the ruling and propertied classes of the overdue eighteenth hundred years, the years following a French Trend were seen as a intense nervousness. Monarchs and their courtiers resided in constant fear of rebellion, persuaded that their power--and their heads--were in danger. Influenced by paranoia, they thought we would fight back against every danger and insurgency, whether real or simply perceived, repressing their populaces through security systems and violent, secretive police force action. European countries and the planet had entered a new era. In Phantom Terror, award-winning historian Adam Zamoyski argues that the strict measures designed to prevent unrest got disastrous and far-reaching effects, inciting the very rebellions they had hoped to quash. The newly set up culture of condition control halted monetary development in Austria and birthed a rebellious junior culture in Russia that could require even harsher solutions to suppress. By the finish of the era, the first stirrings of terrorist actions had become noticeable across the continent, making the previously unfounded fears of Western monarchs possible. Phantom Terror explores this stressed, interesting period, when politicians and social market leaders from Edmund Burke to Mary Shelley were pressured to choose edges and either support or resist the counterrevolutionary soul embodied in the newly omnipotent central expresses. The turbulent political situation that coalesced in this era would lead directly to the revolutions of 1848 and the collapse of order in World Conflict I. We still live with the legacy of the era of paranoia, which prefigured not only the modern totalitarian condition but also the now preeminent contest between society's haves and have-nots. These tempestuous years of suspicion and suppression were the crux upon which the snooze of European background would turn. With this magisterial background, Zamoyski chronicles the moment when needy monarchs took the planet down the path of revolution, terror, and world war.
