The Jacobin clubs in the French Revolution, 1793-1795 / Michael L. Kennedy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kennedy, Michael L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jacobins--France.

Jacobins.

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

France.

France--History--Reign of Terror, 1793-1794.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 p. )

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A pendant to two well-received books by the same author on the departmental clubs during the early years of the Revolution, this book is the product of thirty years of scholarly study, including archival research in Paris and in more than seventy departments in France. It focuses on the twenty-eight months from May 1793 to August 1795, a period spanning the Federalist Revolt, the Terror, and the Thermidorian Reaction. The Federalist Revolt, in which many clubs were involved, had momentous consequences for all of them and was, in the local setting, the principal cause of the Reign of Terror, a period in which more than 5,300 communes had clubs that reached the zenith of their power and influence, engaging in a myriad of political, administrative, judicial, religious, economic, social, and war-related activities. The book ends with their decline and final dissolution by a decree of the Convention in Paris.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Archival Abbreviations

A Note on Dates

PART ONE The Federalist Revolt

Prologue

I The Sections and the Coup of 2 June 1793

II The Revolt by Region

PART TWO The Terror

III. The Revolutionary Government

IV. Revolutionary Justice

V. Club Life

VI. The Members and the Galleries

VII. The Subsistence Crisis

VIII. Property Rights and Land Reform

IX. Local Interests and Public Education

X. Dechristianization

XI. The Cult of Reason

XII. Traditional Faiths

XIII. Spectacles

XIV. The Army and Munitions

XV. Jacobin Cavalrymen

XVI. Casualties, POWs, and the Naval War

PART THREE The Thermidorian Reaction

XVII. The “Last Stand” of the Clubs

XVIII. The Great Dying

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages [282]-299) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78920-576-X

1-57181-186-9

OCLC:

1335727433