French Revolutionaries and English Republicans: The Cordeliers Club, 1790-1794

by Rachel Hammersley

An in-depth study of the radical Cordeliers Club and its influence on political and constitutional thought of the time.

Following the cataclysmic events of 1789, some of those involved in the Revolution began to take seriously the possibility of a French republic. Various ideas developed about the form this should take and the models on which it could be based, from those of ancient Greece and Rome, to modern republics such as Geneva or the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843836467
• ISBN13: 9781843836469
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"