Jacobin legacy : the democratic movement under the Directory.

Professor Woloch shows that Jacobinism survived and forcefully developed into a constitutional party under the conservative Directorial republic. The Jacobin legacy was a mode of political activism-the local political club-and a constellation of attitudes which might be called the "democratic p...

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Main Author: Woloch, Isser, 1937- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Princeton, N.J.] Princeton University Press [1970]
Series:Princeton legacy library.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the Jacobin clubs, 1792-95
  • The problems of reorientation
  • The struggle for survival: from Vendome to Fructidor
  • The new clubs: social consciousness and composition
  • Jacobin civisme: the clubs in action
  • The democratic persuasion: attitudes and issues
  • Ideology and patronage: a case study of Evreux
  • Neo-Jacobinism and the Parisian Sans-Culottes
  • Franchis reform and electoral organization
  • Party conflict: Jacobins and directorials
  • Electors and elections in Paris
  • The vicissitudes of opposition: from Floreal to the Journee of 30 prairial VII
  • The last stand: Jacobinism and anti-Jacobinism in the war crisis of 1799.