French Revolution Debate in Britain: The Origins of Modern Politics

Author/Contributor(s):	Claeys, Gregory
Publisher:	Red Globe Press
Date:	03/22/2007
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.