IX. Local Interests and Public Education

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vi
4. Archival Abbreviations vii
5. A Note on Dates viii
6. PART ONE The Federalist Revolt
7. Prologue 1
8. I The Sections and the Coup of 2 June 1793 13
9. II The Revolt by Region 25
10. PART TWO The Terror
11. III. The Revolutionary Government 51
12. IV. Revolutionary Justice 68
13. V. Club Life 78
14. VI. The Members and the Galleries 93
15. VII. The Subsistence Crisis 111
16. VIII. Property Rights and Land Reform 130
17. IX. Local Interests and Public Education 140
18. X. Dechristianization 151
19. XI. The Cult of Reason 161
20. XII. Traditional Faiths 176
21. XIII. Spectacles 189
22. XIV. The Army and Munitions 196
23. XV. Jacobin Cavalrymen 212
24. XVI. Casualties, POWs, and the Naval War 224
25. PART THREE The Thermidorian Reaction
26. XVII. The “Last Stand” of the Clubs 237
27. XVIII. The Great Dying 263
28. Bibliography 282
29. Index 300