1st Edition

The Jacobins An Essay in the New History

By Crane Brinton Copyright 2011
346 Pages
by Routledge

345 Pages
by Routledge

345 Pages
by Routledge

The Jacobins were the most famous of the political clubs that fomented the French Revolution. Initially moderate, they are remembered mainly for instituting the Reign of Terror. Crane Brinton's The Jacobins was written in the 1930s, itself a decade of the violent centralization of unchecked political power. Brinton offers not an account of the actions of major figures, but an anatomy of... Read more
I. INTRODUCTION II. ORGANIZATION III. MEMBERSHIP IV TACTICS V. PLATFORM VI. RITUAL VII. FAITH VIII. CONCLUSION

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