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Secret Societies and Subversive Movements - Paperback
$39.35
by Nesta H. Webster (Author), Paul Tice (Introduction by)
Secret Societies and Subversive Movements is a historical study by Nesta H. Webster, the British writer best known for her books on the French Revolution and the history of revolutionary ideas. A self-taught historian who worked from contemporary pamphlets, memoirs, and police records, she published this volume in London in 1924 as a sequel to her earlier World Revolution. It traces what she held to be the continuous thread of subversive organization from antiquity to the early twentieth century.
The book surveys secret associations from the ancient Near East through the Templars, the Illuminati of Bavaria, the Carbonari, and the lodges of Freemasonry, arguing that these bodies supplied the organization and doctrine for the French Revolution, nineteenth-century radicalism, and Bolshevism. Webster examines the role she attributes to Jewish networks within certain of these groups, the transmission of revolutionary ideas across borders, and the links she draws between occult circles, political conspiracy, and the movements of her own day. She presents the work as an inquiry into the hidden agencies behind open revolution rather than a complete history of every secret society.
Sovereign Archive Publishing is proud to offer this classic of interwar conspiracy literature. Secret Societies and Subversive Movements remains essential reading for those studying the historiography of revolution, early twentieth-century political writing, and the literature of secret societies.
Number of Pages: 436
Dimensions: 1.11 x 9.08 x 6.08 IN
Publication Date: January 20, 2000