Exploring the backgrounds of the American and French revolutions, Higonnet finds that dominant American ideology welded together strands of individualist and communitarian thought under an umbrella of virtue, while most Frenchmen, by contrast, were still suspicious of economic i…
Who were the Jacobins and what are Jacobinism's implications for today? In a book based on national and local studies - on Marseilles, Nimes, Lyons, Paris, and many smaller towns - one of the leading scholars of the Revolution reconceptualizes Jacobin politics and philosophy and…
Who were the Jacobins and what are Jacobinism's implications for today? In a book based on national and local studies - on Marseilles, Nimes, Lyons, Paris, and many smaller towns - one of the leading scholars of the Revolution reconceptualizes Jacobin politics and philosophy and…