Fair Shares for All
Subtitle: Jacobin Egalitarianism in Practice (Past and Present Publications)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 13, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780521526500
Subjects: European history: c 1750 to c 1900; Macroeconomics; c 1700 to c 1800; History - General History; History; History: World; Europe; Economics - Macroeconomics; Europe - General; Business & Economics-Economics - Macroeconomics; History / Europe / General; Income distribution--France--History--18th ce; Income distribution--France--History--18th century
First sentence: Before attempting to elucidate further the ideological underpinnings of Jacobin egalitarianism, it may be helpful to introduce the principal protagonists of this study, many of whom belong to the amorphous body of rank-and-file Montagnards not often the subject of historiographical scrutiny.