Bidspirit auction | FROST (Thomas). THE SECRET Societies

FROST (Thomas). THE SECRET Societies of the European Revolution, 1776-1876. London. 1876. - FROST (Thomas) THE SECRET Societies of the European Revolution, 1776-1876 . London: Tinsley Brothers, 1876. 2 v.; 230 mm. First edition of this work by the English journalist and writer Thomas Frost (1821-1908), a prolific author of biographies, chronicles, and historical studies on popular and conspiratorial movements of the 19th century. Throughout the two volumes, the author traces the history of the main secret societies linked to European revolutionary movements between 1776 and 1876: in the first volume, the Illuminati, the United Irishmen, the Philadelphians, the Tugendbund, the Carbonari, the Associated Patriots, and the Comuneros; in the second, the Reformed Carbonari, the Hetairia, the United Slavonians, the Templars, the Giovine Italia, the Families, the Giovine Germania, the Giovine Polonia, the Giovine Svizzera, the Communists, the Fenians, and the Nihilists, among others. It constitutes one of the first comprehensive studies in English on the history of European revolutionary secret societies, written within the chronological timeframe of the events it describes. Rare and sought after. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate