The Impact of the French Revolution: Texts from Britain in the 1790s: 2 (Cambridge Readings in the History of Political Thought, Series Number 2) - Softcover

Hampsher-Monk, Iain

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521579112 ISBN 13: 9780521579117

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2005

Synopsis

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.

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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

Book Description

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0521579112
• ISBN 13: 9780521579117
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 366