Britain and the French Revolution

ISBN-13: 9780582369610 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 142 str.

Clive Emsley

Opis

Clive Emsley provides a concise yet wide-ranging introduction to the impact of the French Revolution on Britain and how its effects have been assessed by historians.

Spis treści

An Introduction to the Series VI Note on Referencing System Vll Acknowledgements Vlll PART ONE: INTRODUCTION 1 1. ISSUES AND HISTORIOGRAPHY 3 PART TWO: ANALYSIS 7 2. IDEAS 9 Burke and Paine 9 Radical Variations 13 Loyalist Responses 17 3. POLITICS 21 Whigs and Others 21 Radicals and Repression 29 Loyalism and Xenophobia 40 The Irish Experience 46 4. WAR 53 Causes and Course 53 Men, Money and Munitions 58 Famine 65 PART THREE: CONCLUSION 71 PART FOUR: DOCUMENTS 77 Who's Who 110 Bibliography 117 Index

O autorze

Clive Emsley is Professor of History at the Open University and one of the two General Editors for the Seminar Studies in History Series.