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Walton, Charles (2015) Clubs, parties, factions. In: Andress, David, (ed.) The Oxford handbook of the French Revolution. Oxford Handbooks . New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 362-381. ISBN 9780199639748
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Abstract
Historical debate over the political clubs of the French Revolution over the past two centuries has turned on the question of whether factionalism grew out of their democratic principles or from external circumstances. This chapter suggests that neither ideology nor circumstances can fully account for this radicalization. Instead, the conditions of a ‘weak state’ must be addressed. When authorities were unable or unwilling to implement legislation or to respond to demands coming from society, the clubs often intervened, militating for action to be taken. Tax collection and the crisis of subsistence constituted two crucial issues that the state failed to managed. The clubs, which were divided on these issues, found themselves debating them in a context in which no legal limits on slander (another state weakness) existed. Unchecked calumny poisoned intra and inter-club relations and contributed to factionalism.
| Item Type: | Book Item | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DC France | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799, France -- History -- Reign of Terror, 1793-1794, Jacobins | ||||||||
| Series Name: | Oxford Handbooks | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||||
| Place of Publication: | New York | ||||||||
| ISBN: | 9780199639748 | ||||||||
| Book Title: | The Oxford handbook of the French Revolution | ||||||||
| Editor: | Andress, David | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 22 January 2015 | ||||||||
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| Page Range: | pp. 362-381 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199639748.013.021 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Description: | This volume covers the classic question of the 'origins of revolution'; the different dimensions of personal and social experience that illuminate the political moment of 1789 itself; the goals and dilemmas of the period of constitutional monarchy; the processes of destabilisation and ongoing conflict that ended that experiment; the key issues surrounding the emergence and experience of 'terror'; and the short- and long-term legacies, for both good and ill, of the revolutionary trauma--for France, and for global politics. |
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| Date of first compliant deposit: | 11 April 2017 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 11 April 2017 | ||||||||
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