Conspiracy in the French Revolution - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0719082153 ISBN 13: 9780719082153

Casa editrice: Manchester Univ Pr, 2010

Riassunto

Conspiratorial views of events abound even in our modern, rational world. Often such theories serve to explain the inexplicable. Sometimes they are developed for motives of political expediency: it is simpler to see political opponents as conspirators and terrorists, putting them into one convenient basket, than to seek to understand and disentangle the complex motivations of opponents. So it is not surprising to see that just when the French Revolution was creating the modern political world, a constant obsession with conspiracies lay at the heart of the revolutionary conception of politics.
The book considers the nature and development of the conspiracy obsession from the end of the old regime to the Directory. Chapters focus on conspiracy and fears of conspiracy in the old regime; in the Constituent Assembly; by the king and Marie Antoinette; amongst the people of Paris; on attitudes towards the peasantry and conspiracy; on Jacobin politics of the Year II and the ‘foreign plot’; on counter-revolutionary plots and imaginary plots; on Babeuf and the ‘conspiracy of equals’; and finally on fear of conspiracy as an intellectual impasse in the revolutionary mentality. Inspired by recent debates, this book is a comprehensive survey of the nature of conspiracy in the French Revolution, with each chapter written by a leading historian on the question. Each chapter is an original contribution to the topic, written however to include the wider issues for the area concerned. There is an emphasis throughout on clarity and accessibility, making the volume suitable for a wide readership as well as undergraduates and advanced researchers.

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Recensione:

This is an excellent volume - one of the most coherent and consistently engaging edited collections I have read in quite some time. A stimulating volume on a theme of immense importance to the historiography of the Revolution. --Professor Darrin McMahon, The Ben Weider Professor of History, Florida State University

L'autore:

Peter R. Campbell is Senior Lecturer in History at Sussex University

Thomas E. Kaiser is Professor of History at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Marisa Linton is Senior Lecturer in History at Kingston University

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• Editore: Manchester Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0719082153
• ISBN 13: 9780719082153
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 222
• Redattore: Campbell Peter R., Kaiser Thomas E., Linton Marisa