Jacobin Legacy: The Democratic Movement under the Directory (Princeton Legacy Library) - Hardcover

Woloch, Isser

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691648042 ISBN 13: 9780691648040

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2016

Synopsis

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 persuasion." By focusing on the nature of this persuasion and the way that it was articulated in the Neo-Jacobin clubs, the author provides a fresh perspective on the history of Jacobinism, and on the fate of the Directorial republic.

Originally published in 1970.

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About the Author

Isser Woloch is the Moore Collegiate Professor Emeritus at Columbia University. His publications include The New Regime: Transformations of the French Civic Order, 1789-1820s, which won the Leo Gershoy Award of the American Historical Association.

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0691648042
• ISBN 13: 9780691648040
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 472