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Jacobin Legacy: The Democratic Movement under the Directory
By (Author) Isser Woloch
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Political activism / Political engagement
944.045
Hardback
472
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
822g
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 persuas