The Spectre of Babeuf

by Ian H. Birchall

This study of Babeuf as a political thinker, based on an analysis of his extensive writings, and on scholarship unavailable in English, shows him to be a major precursor of the modern revolutionary socialist tradition. The first part traces Babeuf's political evolution in the context of the French Revolution; the second examines his changing reputation among subsequent historians. The final section assesses the originality of his thought, showing him to be neither a Jacobin nor a Utopian.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349256013
• ISBN13: 9781349256013
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"