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This new survey looks at the impact in Britain of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic aftermath, across all levels of British society. Jennifer Mori provides a clear and accessible guide to the ideas and intellectual debates the revolution stimulated, as well as popular political movements including radicalism.
List of contents
Preface 1. Parties and Politics, Party Politics before the French Revolution, 1785-1789, Party Politics during the French Revolution, 1790-1799, The End of an Era, 1799-1806, Unity and Disunity, 1807-1820 2. Ideas and Influences, The Rights of Man, Toryism Old and New, Discourses of Commerce and Modernity, Radical Toryism and Romantic Conservatism, 3. Radicals and Loyalists, High and Low Politics, 1785-1792, Constitutional Radicalism and the Quest for Parliamentary Reform, 1792-1799, The United Societies and the French Revolution: 1795-1799, Quietus and Redivivus, 1800-1820, Loyalists and the Old Order, The Wages of Sin 4. Individuals and Institutions, Sedition and Treason, From the Two Acts to the Six Acts, Pauperism and Poverty, Religion and Society 5. From Orders to Class? The Upper Ten Thousand, Conflict and Cohesion in Urban Communities Enclosure and the Proletarianisation of Labour, Industry and Popular Protest 6. Ways and Means, Production, Retail and Finance, Wartime Demands and Fiscal Expedients, Strategic Aims and Military Objectives, By Accident or Design? British Global Warfare, 1793-1801, Towards a Grand Strategy, 1803-1815, 7. Pragmatism and Policy, Britain and Europe, 1785-179, From Neutrality to War, Talking at Cross Purposes: The First and Second Coalitions, The British Government and the Bourbon Restoration, the Peace of Amiens to the Battle of Waterloo, 1801-1815, Bibliography, Index.
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Jennifer Mori
Summary
This new survey looks at the impact in Britain of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic aftermath, across all levels of British society. Jennifer Mori provides a clear and accessible guide to the ideas and intellectual debates the revolution stimulated, as well as popular political movements including radicalism.
