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

This book is an edited collection of the major writings of British political thinkers and activists responding to the French Revolution: the latter provoked a more fundamental debate on politics than anything since the Civil War. Often identified as the defining event of political modernity, the French Revolution set the terms for political debate and ideals for the following centuries. Not only ideals but more pervasive political principles emerged in this turbulent period. A full student introduction is followed by excerpts from Price, Burke, Wollstonecraft, Paine, Thelwall, Godwin and others.