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Genre/Form: | Early works History Sources Early works to 1800 |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Iain Hampsher-Monk |
ISBN: | 0521570050 0521579112 9780521570053 9780521579117 |
OCLC Number: | 1052819349 |
Description: | xi, 353 pages ; 23 cm. |
Contents: | List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens (1789); 2. Richard Price: A Discourse on the Love of our Country (1790); 3. Edmund Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790); 4. Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790); 5. Tom Paine: Rights of Man (1791); 6. James Mackintosh: Vindiciae Gallicae (1791); 7. Edmund Burke: An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs (1791); 8. Hannah More: Village Politics (1792); 9. William Godwin: Political Justice (1793); 10. The London Corresponding Society: Two Addresses (1793 and 1794); 11. Thomas Spence: The Real Rights of Man (1793); 12. Richard Brothers: A Revealed Knowledge of the Prophecies and Times (1794); 11. Edmund Burke: Two Letters on a Regicide Peace (1796); 12. John Thelwall: The Rights of Nature against the Usurpations of Establishments (1796); Index. |
Series Title: | Cambridge readings in the history of political thought |
Responsibility: | introduced and edited by Iain Hampsher-Monk. |
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'... advanced students and specialists should not ignore it. Hampsher-Monk has managed to place between a single set of covers a book that is at once an excellent introduction to it's subject for an undergraduate target audience, a welcome guide to recent revolutionary scholarship that is full of suggestions for further reading, and a valuable collection of primary texts.' British Journal for the History of Philosophy '... undergraduate and postgraduate students ... will find Hampsher-Monk's edition to be a highly informative guide to one of the most fascinating periods in the history of British political thought. It will also be of interest to tutors and researchers dealing with the issues of Britain's intellectual history, the development of modern political thought and the intellectual impact of the French revolution on European conceptual history. An obvious advantage of this edition is its comprehensive approach in the presentation of individual texts, as well as the dialogical dynamic that it introduces between the texts. ... This book gives the reader an opportunity to gain an overall perspective into the broad political spectrum of opinions represented in Britain at that time ...' Political Studies Review Read more...


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- France -- Foreign public opinion, British -- Early works to 1800.
- France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Influence.
- France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Sources.
- France -- Politics and government -- 1789-1799.
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Politics and government.
- Public opinion, British.
- France.