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Political clubs during the French Revolution [ Politics & Society / Clubs & Societies ]

… state power. Practices > Politics & Society Places > Clubs & Societies Keywords Politics French Revolution Gender Democracy Violence law Sovereignty State Jacobin Club Faction Political clubs proliferated in France during the French … for many of the Revolution’s achievements. 2  According to this view, the clubs offered a kind of apprenticeship in democracy, teaching citizens how to work together to define and pursue common goals for a post-absolutist age. If they … so, however, the clubs were accused of undermining and usurping state power. … Politics … French Revolution … Gender … Democracy … Violence … law … Sovereignty … State … Jacobin Club … Faction … Political clubs during the French Revolution …

John Keats [ Art and Literature ]

… instead of being a wide heath of Furse and Briars with here and there a remote Oak or Pine, would become a grand democracy of Forest Trees. 8 Keats’s letters also reflect on the nature of the particular friendships they serve to … world’ (II, 350) (a phrase which poignantly reverses his earlier evocation of participating in the growth of a ‘grand democracy of Forest Trees’). Slighted, ridiculed, or simply ignored by most of the reading public during his lifetime, he …

Coffeehouses [ Institutions / Food & Drink venues ]

… comers. As such, it appeared to play a key role in the development of what would ultimately come to be known as liberal democracy. This view would be reinforced over a century later in Jürgen Habermas’s famous thesis on The Structural …

Public opinion (journalism and communication) [ Social interaction / Communication ]

… also to the improvement of communicative devices. As Roger Silverstone pointed out, this was the beginning of liberal democracy: […] round the tables of the coffee-houses, on the pages of the newspapers, which began to provide political …

Reciprocity in France [ Political & Moral philosophy ]

… Crump, A Short Inquiry into the Formation of Political Opinions from the Reign of the Great Families to the Advent of Democracy (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1885), p. 198. These epithets can be found in the Oxford English Dictionary, …