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Varieties of Jacobinism

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

William Scott
William Scott
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University of Aberdeen
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The Historical Journal , Volume 33 , Issue 3 , September 1990 , pp. 723 - 735
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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References

1 Halévi, Ran and Gueniffey, Patrice, in their entry ‘Clubs et sociétés populaires’ in the Dictionnaire critique de la Révolution, ed. Furet, François and Ozouf, Mona (Paris, 1988), pp. 492–507Google Scholar, show an extremely uncritical attitude to the theses and approach of Cochin.

2 The term ‘radical-Marxist’, refers to what some historians call the ‘neo-Jacobin and Marxist’ traditions of French revolutionary historiography – closely connected, no doubt, but perhaps not identical.

3 Mazauric, Claude, Jacobinisme et révolution (Paris, 1984)Google Scholar.

4 Some thoughts are offered on this topic in W. Scott, ‘Commerce, capitalism and the political culture of the French revolution’, forthcoming in the journal History of European Ideas.