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Book SynopsisFears of conspiracy and political terrorism are not confined to our own time – they were central to the French Revolution. This is the first major study of political conspiracies at this momentous epoch in history.
Trade ReviewThis is an excellent volume - one of the most coherent and consistently engaging edited collections I have read in quite some time. A stimulating volume on a theme of immense importance to the historiography of the Revolution. Professor Darrin McMahon, The Ben Weider Professor of History, Florida State University
Table of ContentsIntroduction Conspiracy from the Old Regime to the Revolution: issues and debates. Thomas E. Kaiser, Marisa Linton, & Peter R. Campbell
1 Conspiracy at the end of the Old Regime Peter R. Campbell
2 Conspiracy thinking in the Constituent Assembly: Mirabeau and the exclusion of deputies from the ministry
Barry Shapiro
3 The real and imagined conspiracies of Louis XVI John Hardman
4 ‘Horrible plots and infernal treasons’; conspiracy and the urban landscape in the early Revolution David Andress
5Conspiracy in the village? French revolutionary authorities and the search for “subverters of public
opinion” in the rural south-west Jill Maciak Walshaw
6 ‘Do you believe that we’re conspirators?’ Conspiracies real and imagined in Jacobin politics,
1793-94 Marisa Linton
7 The emigrés and conspiracy in the French Revolution, 1789-1799 Simon Burrows
8 Never was a plot so holy: Gracchus Babeuf and the end of the French Revolution Laura Mason
9 Conclusion. Catilina’s revenge: conspiracy, revolution, and historical consciousness from the Old Regime to the Consulate Thomas E. Kaiser
