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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Jacobins"”.
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The formation of the Paris Jacobins: principles, personalities and politics, 1789-1793
… <p>Section II describes the changes in the Jacobins' membership and leadership, the role of Societal officers and committees, the use of "purges," and the development of factions and factional disputes. It begins with a discussion of the character of the Paris Jacobins and an examination of …
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Inventing Burke: Edmund Burke and the Conservative Party, 1790-1918
… the individual and their opponents as latter-day Jacobins obsessed with a reified State. A key figure is Hugh Cecil, whose <em>Conservatism</em> (1912) was among the first monographs to define Conservative identity in this way and to trace Conservatism's origins to Burke. </p>
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Engaging nuns: Exiled english convents and the politics of exclusion, 1590-1829
… of most of these communities in flight from the Jacobins of the French Revolution. This thesis thus not only demonstrates that nuns were politically active and engaged, but also contributed to the reshaping of England as an imagined space, both in going into exile in the first place, and in the …
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Corresponding Republics: Letter Writing and Patriot Organizing in the Atlantic Revolutions, circa 1760-1792
"Corresponding Republics" is a study of how letter writing practices shaped elite political organizing during the early years of the American, Dutch and French Revolutions of the late eighteenth century. The heart of the project is a study of revolutionary leaders' correspondence and epistolary …