The last revolutionaries : the conspiracy trial of Gracchus Babeuf and the equals / Laura Mason.
2022
KJV130.B33 M33 2022 (Mapit)
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Title
The last revolutionaries : the conspiracy trial of Gracchus Babeuf and the equals / Laura Mason.
Imprint
New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
Description
xi, 289 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary
"Laura Mason tells a new story about the French Revolution by exploring the trial of Gracchus Babeuf. Named by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels as the "first modern communist," Babeuf was a poor man, an autodidact, and an activist accused of conspiring to reignite the Revolution and renew political terror. In one of the lengthiest and most controversial trials of the revolutionary decade, Babeuf and his allies defended political liberty and social equality against a regime they accused of tyranny. Mason refracts national political life through Babeuf's trial to reveal how this explosive event destabilized a fragile republic. Although the French Revolution is celebrated as a founding moment of modern representative government, this book reminds us that the experiment failed in just ten years. Mason explains how an elected government's assault on popular democracy and social justice destroyed the republic, and why that matters now."--Dust jacket.
Note
"Laura Mason tells a new story about the French Revolution by exploring the trial of Gracchus Babeuf. Named by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels as the "first modern communist," Babeuf was a poor man, an autodidact, and an activist accused of conspiring to reignite the Revolution and renew political terror. In one of the lengthiest and most controversial trials of the revolutionary decade, Babeuf and his allies defended political liberty and social equality against a regime they accused of tyranny. Mason refracts national political life through Babeuf's trial to reveal how this explosive event destabilized a fragile republic. Although the French Revolution is celebrated as a founding moment of modern representative government, this book reminds us that the experiment failed in just ten years. Mason explains how an elected government's assault on popular democracy and social justice destroyed the republic, and why that matters now."--Dust jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-278) and index.
Available in Other Form
Online version: Mason, Laura. Last revolutionaries. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2022]
Call Number
KJV130.B33 M33 2022
Language
English
ISBN
0300259557 hardcover
9780300259551 hardcover
9780300259551 hardcover
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