(ed.) The Jacobin Legacy in Modern France – Essays in Honour of Vincent Wright

Historians and political scientists reflect on France's evolution as a political community from the nineteenth century to the present. The volume offers an evaluation of the 'French model' of state building and sheds light on specific aspects of modern French political culture.
 
Sudhir Hazareesingh is Official Fellow and Tutor in Politics at Balliol College, University of Oxford.
 
Contents:
SUDHIR HAZAREESINGH: Vincent Wright and the Jacobin Legacy in Historical and Theoretical Perspectives
KARMA NABULSI: 'La Guerre Sainte': Debates about Just War amongst Republicans in the Nineteenth Century
SUDHIR HAZAREESINGH: 'Honorable and Honoured Citizens'. War Veterans of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Era under the Second Empire
JEAN-PIERRE MACHELON: The Prefect, Political Functionary of the Jacobin State: the Case of the Third Republic (1870-1914)
MAURICE LARKIN: Fraternity, Solidarity, Sociability: the Grass-Roots of the Grand Orient de France (1900-1926)
PHILIP NORD: Reform, Conservation, and Adaptation: Sciences-Po, from the Popular Front to the Liberation
DOUGLAS JOHNSON: The Restoration of the Republic and General de Gaulle
OLIVIER IHL: Emulation Through Decoration: a 'Science' of Government
YVES MÉNY: The Republic and its Territory: the Persistence and the Adaptation of Founding Myths
DOMINIQUE SCHNAPPER: Making Citizens in an Increasingly Complex Society: Jacobinism Revisited
Appendix: Publications of Vincent Wright