Introduction: "One of the most interesting pairs of breeches recorded in modern history"
An ingenious emblem
Diogenes and Rousseau: music, morality, and society
Property, equality, and the passions in eighteenth-century French thought
The entitlements of merit
Conclusion: democracy and terror.
Sans-culottes : an eighteenth-century emblem in the French Revolution by Michael Sonenscher. ISBN 9780691124988. Published by Princeton University Press in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.