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The Impact of the French Revolution

Texts from Britain in the 1790s

Iain Hampsher-Monk editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:11th Aug '05

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An anthology of key political texts exploring the impact of the French Revolution on the British experience.

In this authoritative anthology of key political texts exploring the impact of the French Revolution on the British experience, Iain Hampsher-Monk demonstrates the influence and profundity of major thinkers such as Burke, Wollstonecraft, Paine and Godwin: this imaginative selection will be essential reading for all students of the period.The French Revolution embodied, in the eyes of subsequent generations, the emergence of the modern political world. It made possible a new understanding of class politics, secular ideology and revolutionary transformation which inspired, argues Iain Hampsher-Monk, the whole world-wide communist experiment of the twentieth century. In this authoritative anthology of key political texts exploring the impact of this period on the British experience, Hampsher-Monk examines the variety, influence and profundity of major thinkers such as Burke, Wollstonecraft, Paine and Godwin, along with the impact of other less celebrated contemporary writers.

'… 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

ISBN: 9780521570053

Dimensions: 244mm x 170mm x 21mm

Weight: 780g

366 pages