The Impact of the French Revolution: Texts from Britain in the 1790s

The French Revolution embodied the emergence of the modern political world in the eyes of subsequent generations. It offered a new understanding of class politics, secular ideology, and revolutionary transformation which inspired the world-wide Communist experiment of the twentieth century. Iain Hampsher-Monk examines the variety, influence, and profundity of major thinkers such as Burke, Wollstonecraft, Paine and Godwin, as well as the impact of other less celebrated writers in this authoritative anthology of key political texts exploring the impact of this period on the British experience.

Author: Iain Hampsher-Monk
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 08/01/2005
Pages: 366
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.87lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.70w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780521579117

About the Author
Hampsher-Monk, Iain: - Iain Hampsher-Monk is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Exeter. A founder-editor of the journal History of Political Thought, his many publications include the prize-winning study A History of Modern Political Thought (1994). He is preparing an edition of Burke's Reflections for the series of Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought.