Table of Contents

Preface
Archival Abbreviations
A Note on Dates
Acknowledgments

PART I: THE FEDERALIST REVOLT

Prologue

Chapter 1. The Sections and the Coup of 2 June 1793
Chapter 2. The Revolt by Region

PART II: THE TERROR

Chapter 3. The Revolutionary Government
Chapter 4. Revolutionary Justice
Chapter 5. Club Life
Chapter 6. The Members and the Galleries
Chapter 7. The Subsistence Crisis
Chapter 8. Property Rights and Land Reform
Chapter 9. Local Interests and Public Education
Chapter 10. Dechristianization
Chapter 11. The Cult of Reason
Chapter 12. Traditional Faiths
Chapter 13. Spectacles
Chapter 14. The Army and Munitions
Chapter 15. Jacobin Cavalrymen
Chapter 16. Casualties, POWs, and the Naval War

PART III: THE THERMIDORIAN REACTION

Chapter 17. The “Last Stand” of the Clubs
Chapter 18. The Great Dying

Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Michael Kennedy is Chair of the History Department at Winthrop University.

Reviews

"... prodigious research ... results in a perceptive analysis ... the outcome is an exemplary work and a major contribution in understanding the role of the Jacobin clubs in the history of the French Revolution."  · Choice "... a solidly researched and well-written book. Kennedy has done much to provide new information regarding the inner workings of the Jacobin clubs in the Revolution."  · Labour/Travail