Conspiracy in the French Revolution / edited by Peter R. Campbell, Thomas E. Kaiser and Marisa Linton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Campbell, Peter Robert, 1955-

Kaiser, Thomas E.

Linton, Marisa, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conspiracies--France--History--18th century.

Conspiracies.

History.

France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799.

France.

Physical Description:

xi, 222 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester, [England] ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2007.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780719074028

0719074029

OCLC:

144227183