Jacobin Legacy: The Democratic Movement Under the Directory

by Isser Woloch

Book Overview

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 persuasion and the way that it was articulated in the Neo-Jacobin clubs, the author provides a fresh perspective...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691061831
• ISBN13: 9780691061832
• Release Date: January 1970
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.68 lbs.