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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens (1789); 2. Richard Price: A Discourse on the Love of our Country (1790); 3. Edmund Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790); 4. Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790); 5. Tom Paine: Rights of Man (1791); 6. James Mackintosh: Vindiciae Gallicae (1791); 7. Edmund Burke: An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs (1791); 8. Hannah More: Village Politics (1792); 9. William Godwin: Political Justice (1793); 10. The London Corresponding Society: Two Addresses (1793 and 1794); 11. Thomas Spence: The Real Rights of Man (1793); 12. Richard Brothers: A Revealed Knowledge of the Prophecies and Times (1794); 11. Edmund Burke: Two Letters on a Regicide Peace (1796); 12. John Thelwall: The Rights of Nature against the Usurpations of Establishments (1796); Index....
