@misc{Dobrowolski_Paweł_T._(1954–_)_Popular_2017,
 author={Dobrowolski, Paweł T. (1954– )},
 editor={Kijak, Anna. Tr.},
 editor={Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences},
 editor={Polish Historical Society},
 copyright={Creative Commons Attribution BY-ND 4.0 license},
 address={Warsaw},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2017},
 language={eng},
 abstract={The article applies a comparative perspective to assess the onset of the two ‘successful’ eighteen-century revolutions – the American and the French. The Boston events of March 1770 are compared with those of Paris in July 1789: in both cases ‘the people’ faced the soldiers, riots and politically generated violence led to bloodshed, but the subsequent actions of the insurgents showed a marked difference in understanding the sense of justice and the ways of promoting revolutionary discourse. Boston patriots relied on the English-based system of common law, were ready to condemn their own radicals and did not wish plebeian justice to prevail. They hoped for a perestroika, not for a revolution. The French – finding no culprits to condemn, and having as of yet no legal institutions of their own to use – were willing to disregard the legal continuity of the state and to search for more radical solutions.},
 type={Text},
 title={Popular justice or why were there no sans-culottes in America?},
 URL={http://rcin.org.pl/Content/64056/PDF/WA303_83565_KH-124-EE-1_Dobrowolski.pdf},
 volume={124},
 number={Eng.-Lang. Ed. 1},
 journal={Kwartalnik Historyczny},
 publisher={Instytut Historii Polskiej Akademii Nauk},
 keywords={Boston Massacre, 1770, France - 1789-1799 (Revolution), France - history - Storming of the Bastille, 1789, political violence - United States - 18th c., United States - history - Revolution, 1775-1783, political violence - France - 1789-1815, revolution, Boston, Paris, massacre, Bastille, violence},
}