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.
The French Revolution embodied, in the eyes of subsequent generations, the emergence of the modern political world. It made possible a new understanding of class politics, secular ideology and revolutionary transformation which inspired, argues Iain Hampsher-Monk, the whole world-wide communist experiment of the twentieth century. In this authoritative anthology of key political texts exploring the impact of this period on the British experience, Hampsher-Monk examines the variety, influence and profundity of major thinkers such as Burke, Wollstonecraft, Paine and Godwin, along with the impact of other less celebrated contemporary writers.
