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Of Natural Laws (1651) [ Concepts ]
… Leviathan. London: Printed for Andrew Crooke, at the Green Dragon in St. Paul’s Churchyard, 1651. Text based on Pelican Classics edition. Full text from Project Gutenberg. … Of Natural Laws (1651) …
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Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) [ Concepts ]
… front in courts and parliaments. We will have her mixed throughout the whole mass of life, and blended with all the classes of society. The people of England will show to the haughty potentates of the world, and to their talking …
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Duelling [ Politics & Society ]
… combat, of a more or less ritualized kind, was a part of masculine culture at every social level. Just as the upper classes had their ‘roisters’, ‘hectors’, and duellists, so the lower classes had their street bullies, ‘ruffians’, and ‘roaring boys’. 1 In spite of the image of the eighteenth century as an … men (Andrew 49). There are of course a number of reasons why the practice should have persisted, ranging from middle-class aspirations to gentility, to a veneration of the gentleman’s code, to an ideal of military fame. And it was not …
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Political clubs during the French Revolution [ Politics & Society / Clubs & Societies ]
… 1981 [1978]); Keith M. Baker, Inventing the French Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990). 2 . The classic version of this interpretation is Alphonse Aulard, Histoire politique de la Révolution française (Paris: A. … were nine-hundred-and-twenty-one. 7 Many cities had more than one club, and divisions between them emerged, often along class lines. In Nîmes, for example, one club charged a hefty twenty-four livre membership fee while another charged only six livres. 8 Jacobins may have spoken the language of ‘equality’, but they did not abandon class in politically organising during the early years of the Revolution. 7 . Michael L. Kennedy, The Jacobin Club in …
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