Kenneth Margerison

Goodness beyond Virtue: Jacobins during the French Revolution

A narrative of the French Revolution from a Jacobin perspective the limitless claims of individual liberty the indisputable claims of civil society the limitless claims of the public sphere the indisputable claims of the nation Jacobins as the free citizens of a one-party state social reconciliation, fraternity spreading the word - rhetorics of harmony unifying emnities at home and abroad applied Jacobinism - the social ecologies of Jacobin principle looking backward - on the origins of Jacobin sensibility looking forward - Jacobinism in world history.

Elections in the French Revolution: An Apprenticeship in Democracy, 1789-1799

Introduction 1. Subjects to citizens? The elections to the Estates General and the Revolution 2. The limits of citizenship: the Franchise question, 1789-91 3. Biting on the ballot: from enthusiasm to abstention, 1790-1 4. One man one vote? The experiment with electoral democracy in 1792 5. Voting the constitution: the referenda of 1793 and 1795 6. Parties, schisms and purges: elections under the Directory, 1795-9 7. An invisible aristocracy? The departmental assemblies and the emergence of a new political class Conclusion.

Political pamphlets, the society of thirty, and the failure to create a discourse of national reform during the French pre-revolution, 1788–1789

Ideologie du reformisme national dans le discours politique du pamphlet pre-revolutionnaire