Michael Sonenscher is a Fellow of King's College, University of Cambridge. He has written several books on the French Revolution, including Before the Deluge (2007) and Sans-Culottes (2009), as well as two broader studies in the history of political thought: Capitalism: The Story behind the Word (2022) and After Kant: The Romans, the Germans and the Moderns in the History of Political Thought (2023).

• Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: Ideas as Evidence; 2. Concepts of Revolution; 3. Causes and Causation; 4. Cutting the Cable: Rousseau, Sieyes and the Idea of a Representative System; 5. The Cement of Society: The Republican Alternative to the Representative System; 6. Constituent Power and Political Power; 7. The Failure of the Feuillants; 8. The Sans-Culottes; 9. Robespierre and the Politics of the Terror; 10. The War for the World: Imperial Power and Social Science; 11. Conclusion: The Legacy; Index.

Michael Sonenscher is a Fellow of King's College, University of Cambridge. He has written several books on the French Revolution, including Before the Deluge (2007) and Sans-Culottes (2009), as well as two broader studies in the history of political thought: Capitalism: The Story behind the Word (2022) and After Kant: The Romans, the Germans and the Moderns in the History of Political Thought (2023).

• Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: Ideas as Evidence; 2. Concepts of Revolution; 3. Causes and Causation; 4. Cutting the Cable: Rousseau, Sieyes and the Idea of a Representative System; 5. The Cement of Society: The Republican Alternative to the Representative System; 6. Constituent Power and Political Power; 7. The Failure of the Feuillants; 8. The Sans-Culottes; 9. Robespierre and the Politics of the Terror; 10. The War for the World: Imperial Power and Social Science; 11. Conclusion: The Legacy; Index.

Michael Sonenscher is a Fellow of King's College, University of Cambridge. He has written several books on the French Revolution, including Before the Deluge (2007) and Sans-Culottes (2009), as well as two broader studies in the history of political thought: Capitalism: The Story behind the Word (2022) and After Kant: The Romans, the Germans and the Moderns in the History of Political Thought (2023).

• Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: Ideas as Evidence; 2. Concepts of Revolution; 3. Causes and Causation; 4. Cutting the Cable: Rousseau, Sieyes and the Idea of a Representative System; 5. The Cement of Society: The Republican Alternative to the Representative System; 6. Constituent Power and Political Power; 7. The Failure of the Feuillants; 8. The Sans-Culottes; 9. Robespierre and the Politics of the Terror; 10. The War for the World: Imperial Power and Social Science; 11. Conclusion: The Legacy; Index.