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Jacobin
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Jacobin a member of a democratic club established in Paris in 1789. The Jacobins were the most radical and ruthless of the political groups formed in the wake of the French Revolution, and in association with Robespierre they instituted the Terror of 1793–4.
The term was applied to the Dominicans in Old French from their church in Paris, St Jacques (Latin,
Jacobus), near which they built their first convent; the latter eventually became the headquarters of the French revolutionary group.
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Goodness beyond Virtue: Jacobins during the French Revolution.(Review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 4/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...was crucial to Jacobin ideology. The Jacobins hoped to reconcile...conviction moved the Jacobins to use all forms...fraternity, however, Jacobin language lost...Revolt," showed Jacobin success is not...awareness, and the Jacobins resorted to Terror...
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Goodness Beyond Virtue: Jacobins During the French Revolution.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 6/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...because the Jacobins called for social...argues, the Jacobin denial of class...either who the Jacobins were, when someone became a Jacobin, or when one...ideology, two on Jacobin universalisms...flowed from the Jacobins' contradictory...
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The Anti-Jacobin Novel: British Conservatism and the French Revolution. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Albion; 3/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; M. O. Grenby. The Anti-Jacobin Novel: British Conservatism and the...popular fiction. The first sally was "Jacobin fiction," a propagandizing genre...after the Terror, by "the Anti-Jacobin novel," a genre that held sway across...
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Pitt and Anti-Jacobin hysteria: in the 1790s a press campaign lambasted Jacobins and fellow-travellers.(possible English government coordination of the campaign)
Magazine article from: History Today; 9/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...press campaign Lambasted Jacobins and fellow-travellers...issue of the Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine...ranging from the least Jacobin of Directors, through the decidedly assorted `Jacobins' of Marat, Mirabeau...the existence of a Jacobin faction, in the bosom...
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The English Jacobin Novel on Rights, Property, and the Law: Critiquing the Contract.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Wordsworth Circle; 9/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; Nancy E. Johnson, The English Jacobin Novel on Rights, Property, and the Law...strengths of Nancy E. Johnson's The English Jacobin Novel on Rights, Property, and the Law...studies of British fiction in the 1790s: Jacobin fiction is anchored firmly in narratives...
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The new Jacobin elite.(THE LAST WORD)
Magazine article from: The New American; 7/6/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...Cambodia, all sprang from the Jacobin tradition, with many of these...1789, the most influential Jacobins of today can be found among...echelons of our society. While Jacobins such as Robespierre, Danton...Palais Royal these Orleaniste Jacobins unleashed their agents to terrorize...
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Seditious Allegories: John Thelwall and Jacobin Writing.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 10/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Seditious Allegories: John Thelwall and Jacobin Writing. By MICHAEL SCRIVENER. University...a series of related arguments: that a Jacobin public sphere was created in the 1790s...that after 1801 and the successful anti-Jacobin repression this public sphere was fragmented...
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Anti-Jacobin Novels, 5 vols.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Wordsworth Circle; 9/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...is articulated in the Anti-Jacobin novels of Henry James Pye...This new edition of Anti-Jacobin novels (to be completed next...ruinously abstract theories of the Jacobins, and contributed significantly...these same years, these Anti-Jacobin novels endorse Burkean conservatism...
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Novel and History in Anti-Jacobin Satire.
Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Walker in the dedication to his anti-Jacobin novel, The Vagabond, 'that Romances...More particularly, the anti-Jacobins condemned radical adaptations of...authority of the state.[4] Anti-Jacobin authors developed that strategy by...
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Fundamentalism, Sectarianism, and Revolution: The jacobin dimension of modernity. (Book Reviews/Comptes rendus).
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Sociology; 9/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Sectarianism, and Revolution: The Jacobin Dimension of Modernity. Cambridge: Cambridge...The sectarian element persists in the Jacobin style of politics. This is a politics...This is essentialized by them. They are Jacobin in the sense that they too make universal...
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Jacobin Clubs
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...Revolution. The French Jacobins believed in universal...July 1794 the Paris Jacobin club was closed after...Republican Party. The word "Jacobin" as an epithet still...generation after the Jacobins in France had become...Michael L. "A French Jacobin Club in Charleston...
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Jacobins
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...for which the Jacobins were largely responsible, the Jacobin leaders instituted...former allies of the Jacobins, such as the Cordeliers...meant the fall of the Jacobins, but their spirit...See I. Woloch, Jacobin Legacy: The Democratic...
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Jacobin Club
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
Jacobin Club The most famous of the political clubs of the FRENCH REVOLUTION . It...GENERAL in 1789, and acquired its new name from its headquarters in an old Jacobin (Dominican) monastery in Paris. Its membership grew steadily and its...
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Jacobin
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
...church of Saint-Jacques (L. Jacōbus ) in Paris XIV; B. member of a political club established at Paris 1789 near the old Jacobin convent XVIII. — (O)F. Jacobin — medL. Jacōbīnus .
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Anti-Jacobin
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Anti-Jacobin (1797–8), a journal founded by Canning and a group of friends to combat the radical views supported by the Monthly Magazine , Coleridge's Watchman , and other Jacobin influences. It was edited by Gifford .
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