From: Mike Lacey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Having finally managed to get hold of a copy of the reading list for a course in Secret societies and the revolutionary movement in Europe, 1776-1871, offered at a prominent University in the UK in the early 1990's (and possibly still going now, although this reading list dates from the early '90's), I would appreciate any listees comments on it. Primarily as a medievalist I am at a loss with this time period, and feel it time for some self improvement - any comments on this reading list, and recommendations from it, are most welcome. Cheers, Mike Secret Societies and the Revolutionary Movement in Europe 1776-1871 School of History Optional Unit HIST 360 Recommended Reading Students taking this course are urged to read the first two books on the reading list as soon as possible. Unless otherwise indicated, nearly all the listed books/articles/photocopies can be found in the Short Loan Collection in the University Library. Introductory Works: J.M. Roberts: The mythology of the Secret Societies (1974) N.H. Webster: Secret Societies and Subversive Movements (1964) N.H. Webster: World Revolution: the Plot against Civilisation (1921) N. Cohn: Warrant for Genocide (1967) N. Cohn: Europe's Inner Demons (1974) R. Hofstadter: The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1966) G.S. Wood: “Conspiracy and the Paranoid Style: Causality and Deceit in the Eighteenth Century”, The William and Mary Quarterly (1982), 401-441 General Works: R. Partner: The Murdered Magicians: the Templars and their Myth (1982) C.W. Heckthorn: Secret Societies of all Ages and Countries (1875) J.H. Lepper: Famous Secret Societies (n. d.) H. Vivian: Secret Societies, Old and New (1927) A. Deraul: Secret Societies: Yesterday and Today (1966) N. MacKenzie: Secret Societies (1967) I. Wilkins and H. Strydom: The Broederbond (1979) S. Knight: The Brotherhood; the Secret World of the Freemasons (1984) R.J. Goldstein: Political Repression in Nineteenth-Century Europe (1983) J.H. Billington: Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith (1980) Seminar 1: The Psychology of Belief in Secret Societies: J.M. Roberts: The Mythology of the Secret Societies (1974) N.H. Webster: Secret Societies and Subversive Movements (1964) R. Hofstadter: The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1966) Seminar 2: The Origins of Freemasonry: J.M. Roberts: The Mythology of the Secret Societies (1974) esp. chapters 2-4 D. Knoop and G.P. Jones: The Genesis of Freemasonry (1957) D. Stevenson: The Origins of Freemasonry. Scotland's Century (1988) R. Partner: The Murdered Magicians: the Templars and their Myth (1982) N. MacKenzie: Secret Societies (1967) esp. chapters 6-7 S. Knight: The Brotherhood: the Secret World of the Freemasons (1984) pp. 1-45 Seminar 3: Enlightenment and Freemasonry on the Continent: M.C. Jacob: The Radical Enlightenment: Pantheists, Freemasons and Republicans (1981) J.M. Roberts: The Mythology of the Secret Societies (1974) esp. chapter 5 K. Epstein: The Genesis of German Conservatism (1975) R. Shackleton: “The Encyclopedie and Freemasonry,” in W.H. Barber, et. al “The Age of the Enlightenment: Studies presented to Theodore Bestermann" (1967) C. Garret: “Swedenborg and the mystical Enlightenment In late Eighteenth-Century England,” Journal of the History of Ideas, 45 (1984) C. Garret: Respectable Folly: Millenarians and the French Revolution in France and England E. Stoeffler: German Pietism during the Eighteenth Century (1914) Seminar 4: The Illuminati and Attacks on Freemasonry: J.M. Roberts: The Mythology of the Secret Societies (1974) N.H. Webster: Secret Societies and Subversive Movements (1964) J.H. Lepper: Famous Secret Societies (n. d.) esp. chapter 15 R. Le Forrestier: Les Illumines de Baviere et la Franc-maconnerie allemande (1914, reprinted 1974) V. Stauffer: New England and the Bavarian Illuminati (1918) Seminar 5: The Impact of the French Revolution: A. Goodwin: The French Revolution (1953) N. Hampson: The French Revolution: a Concise History (1975) N. Hampson: The First European Revolution (1969) W. Doyle: The Oxford History of the French Revolution (1989) M. Lyons: The Directory (1975) Seminar 6: The Plot Theory of the Revolution: J.M. Roberts: The Mythology of the Secret Societies (1974) esp. pp. 181-213 M. Williams: Revolutions, 1775-1830 (1971) esp. pp. 30-33 J. Robison: Proofs of a Conspiracy against all the Religions and Governments (1797) J. Robison: New Light on Jacobinism (1798) W. Playfair: The History of Jacobinism, its Crimes etc. (1796) A. Barruel: Memoires pour servir a l'histoire du jacobinisme (1798) A. Barruel: A History of Jacobinism (1797-98) K. Epstein: The Genesis of German Conservatism (1975) esp. chapters 9-10 M.L. Kennedy: The Jacobin Clubs in the French Revolution, the First Years (1982) C. Brinton: The Jacobins: an Essay in the New History (1961) esp. chapter 2 V. Stauffer: New England and the Bavarian Illuminati (1918) esp. chapter 3 Seminar 7: The Conspiracy of the Equals: D. Thomson: The Babeuf Plot: the Making of a Republican Legend (1947) R.B. Rose: Gracchus Babeuf, the First Revolutionary Communist (1978) M. Lyons: France under the Directory (1975) esp. chapter 2 K.D. Tonesson: “The Babouvists,” Past and Present 22 (1962) P. Higonnet: “Babeuf: Communist or Proto-Communist?,' Journal of Modern History 51 (1979) P. Buonarroti: Conspiration pour l'egalite, dite de Babeuf (1828) B. O'Brien: Buonarrotti's History of Babeuf's Conspiracy for Equality (1836) -- Mike Lacey [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 3879236 "The head of state has called for me by name, But I don't have time for him..." 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