Anti-Revolutionary conspiracy theory in the age of the French Revolution : a historical context

Simple item page
buir.advisorLeighton, C. D. A.
dc.contributor.authorÇakır, Burçin
dc.date.accessioned2016-07-01T11:00:19Z
dc.date.available2016-07-01T11:00:19Z
dc.date.issued2004
dc.departmentDepartment of Historyen_US
dc.descriptionCataloged from PDF version of article.en_US
dc.description.abstractThe thesis deals with those conspiracy theories about the origins of the French Revolution, which were influential in Britain in the period of the French Revolutionary Wars at the end of the eighteenth century. It focuses on the most important writers of such material: Edmund Burke, the British parliamentarian; Augustin Barruel, a French Jesuit writer; and John Robison, a professor of natural science at the University of Edinburgh. The thesis provides a context, chiefly historical, for the reading of their works and seeks to offer reasons for their effectiveness in influencing public opinion in the period. For these purposes, as well as the works themselves, attention is given to conspiracy theory in general, parts of the history of Freemasonry and contemporary thought which gave support to conspiratorial explanations of the Revolution.en_US
dc.description.degreeM.A.en_US
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityÇakır, Burçinen_US
dc.format.extent83 leavesen_US
dc.identifier.itemidBILKUTUPB083094
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/29482
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherBilkent Universityen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectFrench Revolutionen_US
dc.subjectProfessor Robisonen_US
dc.subjectAbbé Barruelen_US
dc.subjectEdmund Burkeen_US
dc.subjectIlluminatien_US
dc.subjectFreemasonryen_US
dc.subjectConspiracy Theoryen_US
dc.subject.lccDC148 .C35 2004en_US
dc.subject.lcshFreemasonry France.en_US
dc.titleAnti-Revolutionary conspiracy theory in the age of the French Revolution : a historical contexten_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

Files

Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
0002545.pdf
Size:
393.71 KB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
Full printable version
Download

Collections

Dept. of History - Master's degree