Conspiracy in the French Revolution

Campbell, Peter R.; Kaiser, Thomas E.; Linton, Marisa

ISBN 10: 0719074029 / ISBN 13: 9780719074028

Published by Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2007

About this Item

222 pp. Tightly bound. Rounding to cloth at heel of spine. Corners not bumped. First Edition / First Printing. 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1. Please Note the reason for the lower "good" rating: Page 93 / 94 was dog eared. On page 93 the previous owner wrote one date and three short vertical lines in the page margin. On page 94 the owner wrote two short vertical lines and a date.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Conspiracy in the French Revolution
• Publisher: Manchester University Press, Manchester
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0719074029
• ISBN 13: 9780719074028
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Dust Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Scholarly IV

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Synopsis

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.

The book considers the nature and development of the conspiracy obsession from the end of the old regime to the Directory. Chapters focus on conspiracy and fears of conspiracy in the old regime; in the Constituent Assembly; by the king and Marie Antoinette; amongst the people of Paris; on attitudes towards the peasantry and conspiracy; on Jacobin politics of the Year II and the ‘foreign plot’; on counter-revolutionary plots and imaginary plots; on Babeuf and the ‘conspiracy of equals’; and finally on fear of conspiracy as an intellectual impasse in the revolutionary mentality. Inspired by recent debates, this book is a comprehensive survey of the nature of conspiracy in the French Revolution, with each chapter written by a leading historian on the question. Each chapter is an original contribution to the topic, written however to include the wider issues for the area concerned. There is an emphasis throughout on clarity and accessibility, making the volume suitable for a wide readership as well as undergraduates and advanced researchers

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About the Authors

Peter R. Campbell is Senior Lecturer in History at Sussex University

Marisa Linton is Senior Lecturer in History at Kingston Unversity