The French Revolution and British Popular PoliticsMark Philp The nine essays in this collection focus on the dynamics of British popular politics in the 1790s and on the impact of the French Revolution and the subsequent war with France. Leading scholars in the field explore the nature and origins of the ideological conflicts between reformers and loyalists, the impact of the war with France on the organisation of the British state and on its relations with its people, and the extent of the threat of revolution on both British and colonial territory. The French Revolution and British Popular Politics makes an unusually integrated and coherent collection of essays, substantially advancing knowledge in this controversial area and bringing together important work by senior figures in the field. |
Contents
English sermons and tracts as media of debate on the French Revolution 178999 | 18 |
Interpretations of antiJacobinism | 38 |
The fragmented ideology of reform | 50 |
Radicalism revolution and political culture an AngloFrench comparison | 78 |
Revolution war and the nation state the British and French experiences 17891801 | 99 |
War revolution and the crisis of the British empire | 118 |
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1798 rebellion ancien régime Anglican Anti-Jacobin April argument army Britain Burke Burke's Caribbean Catholic Christian Christie Church clergy Clive Emsley colonies conservative constitutional crisis David Eastwood debate decade December democracy democratic Dissenters Dundas E. P. Thompson economic Edmund Burke eighteenth century electoral elite England English radicalism especially established events in France example February force French Revolution Grenada H. T. Dickinson Historical Journal History ideology increasingly insurrection invasion Ireland J. C. D. Clark Jacobin John Dinwiddy Jones King labour late eighteenth-century liberty Linda Colley London Corresponding Society loyalism loyalist loyalist associations magistrates Methodist militia millenarian mobilisation moral nation November organised Oxford Paine's Parliament patriotism Pitt Pitt's Political Culture poor popular politics population principles rebellion reform movement religion response Revd revolutionary rhetoric riots sans-culotte sermons slaves social Stress and Stability Thelwall Thomas traditional United Irishmen Volunteer William Wretched Faces
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