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.

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.