Marisa Linton is a leading historian of the French Revolution. She is currently Reader in History at Kingston University. She has published widely on eighteenth-century France and the French Revolution. She is the author of The Politics of Virtue in Enlightenment France (2001) and the co-editor of Conspiracy in the French Revolution (2007).

• Political Identity and the Jacobin Leaders ; 1. The Eighteenth-Century Man of Virtue ; 2. 'How the Face of Things Has Changed!' ; 3. New Men for New Politics: the First Jacobin Leaders ; 4. The Ascendancy of the Girondins and the Path to War ; 5. Choosing Sides: Friends, Factions and Conspirators in the New Republic ; 6. A Conspiracy of Girondins ; 7. Being Cincinnatus: The Jacobins in Power ; 8. The Enemy Within ; 9. The Robespierrists and the Republic of Virtue ; 10. Final Choices: Thermidor ; 11. Achieving Authenticity ; Conclusion

Linton's book offers a precious and well-documented reassessment of the Terror and its nature. Even though Linton tends sometimes to underestimate political divisions between factions within the Jacobin club (262), the book is a valuable resource for understanding the contest which led to the Terror, in particular the atmosphere of fear and suspicion which increasingly influenced the political life of the young French Republic.

Marisa Linton is a leading historian of the French Revolution. She is currently Reader in History at Kingston University. She has published widely on eighteenth-century France and the French Revolution. She is the author of The Politics of Virtue in Enlightenment France (2001) and the co-editor of Conspiracy in the French Revolution (2007).

• Political Identity and the Jacobin Leaders ; 1. The Eighteenth-Century Man of Virtue ; 2. 'How the Face of Things Has Changed!' ; 3. New Men for New Politics: the First Jacobin Leaders ; 4. The Ascendancy of the Girondins and the Path to War ; 5. Choosing Sides: Friends, Factions and Conspirators in the New Republic ; 6. A Conspiracy of Girondins ; 7. Being Cincinnatus: The Jacobins in Power ; 8. The Enemy Within ; 9. The Robespierrists and the Republic of Virtue ; 10. Final Choices: Thermidor ; 11. Achieving Authenticity ; Conclusion

Linton's book offers a precious and well-documented reassessment of the Terror and its nature. Even though Linton tends sometimes to underestimate political divisions between factions within the Jacobin club (262), the book is a valuable resource for understanding the contest which led to the Terror, in particular the atmosphere of fear and suspicion which increasingly influenced the political life of the young French Republic.

Marisa Linton is a leading historian of the French Revolution. She is currently Reader in History at Kingston University. She has published widely on eighteenth-century France and the French Revolution. She is the author of The Politics of Virtue in Enlightenment France (2001) and the co-editor of Conspiracy in the French Revolution (2007).

• Political Identity and the Jacobin Leaders ; 1. The Eighteenth-Century Man of Virtue ; 2. 'How the Face of Things Has Changed!' ; 3. New Men for New Politics: the First Jacobin Leaders ; 4. The Ascendancy of the Girondins and the Path to War ; 5. Choosing Sides: Friends, Factions and Conspirators in the New Republic ; 6. A Conspiracy of Girondins ; 7. Being Cincinnatus: The Jacobins in Power ; 8. The Enemy Within ; 9. The Robespierrists and the Republic of Virtue ; 10. Final Choices: Thermidor ; 11. Achieving Authenticity ; Conclusion

Linton's book offers a precious and well-documented reassessment of the Terror and its nature. Even though Linton tends sometimes to underestimate political divisions between factions within the Jacobin club (262), the book is a valuable resource for understanding the contest which led to the Terror, in particular the atmosphere of fear and suspicion which increasingly influenced the political life of the young French Republic.