"Crook provides the only thorough treatment of elections during the French Revolution....This in one of those rare books that seizes the attention, changes ways of thinking, and leaves one enlightened." Choice

• Introduction; 1. Subjects to citizens? The elections to the Estates General and the Revolution; 2. The limits of citizenship: the Franchise question, 1789–91; 3. Biting on the ballot: from enthusiasm to abstention, 1790–1; 4. One man one vote? The experiment with electoral democracy in 1792; 5. Voting the constitution: the referenda of 1793 and 1795; 6. Parties, schisms and purges: elections under the Directory, 1795–9; 7. An invisible aristocracy? The departmental assemblies and the emergence of a new political class; Conclusion.

"Crook provides the only thorough treatment of elections during the French Revolution....This in one of those rare books that seizes the attention, changes ways of thinking, and leaves one enlightened." Choice

• Introduction; 1. Subjects to citizens? The elections to the Estates General and the Revolution; 2. The limits of citizenship: the Franchise question, 1789–91; 3. Biting on the ballot: from enthusiasm to abstention, 1790–1; 4. One man one vote? The experiment with electoral democracy in 1792; 5. Voting the constitution: the referenda of 1793 and 1795; 6. Parties, schisms and purges: elections under the Directory, 1795–9; 7. An invisible aristocracy? The departmental assemblies and the emergence of a new political class; Conclusion.

"Crook provides the only thorough treatment of elections during the French Revolution....This in one of those rare books that seizes the attention, changes ways of thinking, and leaves one enlightened." Choice

• Introduction; 1. Subjects to citizens? The elections to the Estates General and the Revolution; 2. The limits of citizenship: the Franchise question, 1789–91; 3. Biting on the ballot: from enthusiasm to abstention, 1790–1; 4. One man one vote? The experiment with electoral democracy in 1792; 5. Voting the constitution: the referenda of 1793 and 1795; 6. Parties, schisms and purges: elections under the Directory, 1795–9; 7. An invisible aristocracy? The departmental assemblies and the emergence of a new political class; Conclusion.