French Revolution Debate in Britain: The Origins of Modern Politics (British History in Perspective)

by Gregory Claeys (Author)

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  Paperback
  2007

  $58.26

  Gregory Claeys explores the reception of the French Revolution in Britain through the medium of its leading interpreters. Claeys argues that the major figures - Thomas Paine, Edmund Burke, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin and John Thelwall - collectively laid the foundations for political debate for the following century, and longer.