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Author Censer, Jack Richard

Title Prelude to power : the Parisian radical press, 1789-1791 / Jack Richard Censer
Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1976

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 186 pages) : illustrations
Summary Otiginally published in 1976. This investigation focuses on the ideology of the radical press during the French Revolution. Events, individuals, and institutions were important, but they were reported in such a manner as to make them subordinate to ideas. In their descriptions of the people and institutions of the Revolution, radicals drew heavily on the stereotypes provided by their ideology. The author analyzes the radicals of 1789 to 1791 with respect to collective interests and concerns. For these radicals, ideology governed from 1789 through 1791. And, insofar as events had any impact on the radicals, occurrences of 1790 were important because they coincided with radical shifts in opinion. Subsequent and more famous events came too late to have much impact on radical views. The author reveals that Jacobin thought of 1792 and 1793 had definite origins dating from 1789. The similarity between radical thought and the ideology of Robespierre proves that Jacobinism was not a hasty doctrine of the moment but the direct product of positions assumed since 1789
Analysis Radical press France. Paris, 1789-1791
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-177) and index
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Subject Press -- France
Journalists.
Press.
Französische Revolution
Gewalt
Presse
SUBJECT France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Journalists
France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051319
Subject France.
Paris
Genre/Form History.
Radikale Presse.
Form Electronic book
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