Conspiracy in the French Revolution

by Peter R. Campbell (Editor), Peter R. Campbell (Editor), Thomas E. Kaiser (Editor)

Conspiratorial views of events abound even in our modern, rational world. Often such theories serve to explain the inexplicable. Sometimes they are developed for motives of political expediency: it is simpler to see political opponents as conspirators and terrorists, putting them into one convenient basket, than to seek to understand and disentangle the complex motivations of opponents. So it is not surprising to see that just when the French Revolution was creating the modern political world, a constant obsession with conspiracies lay at the heart of the revolutionary conception of politics.

Genres: French Revolution, History

256 pages, Hardcover

First published October 16, 2007