The Impact of the French Revolution by Iain Hampsher-Monk
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.
'… advanced students and specialists should not ignore itHampsher-Monk has managed to place between a single set of covers a book that is at once an excellent introduction to it's subject for an undergraduate target audience, a welcome guide to recent revolutionary scholarship that is full of suggestions for further reading, and a valuable collection of primary texts.' British Journal for the History of Philosophy
'… undergraduate and postgraduate students … will find Hampsher-Monk's edition to be a highly informative guide to one of the most fascinating periods in the history of British political thought. It will also be of interest to tutors and researchers dealing with the issues of Britain's intellectual history, the development of modern political thought and the intellectual impact of the French revolution on European conceptual history. An obvious advantage of this edition is its comprehensive approach in the presentation of individual texts, as well as the dialogical dynamic that it introduces between the texts. … This book gives the reader an opportunity to gain an overall perspective into the broad political spectrum of opinions represented in Britain at that time …' Political Studies Review
'… undergraduate and postgraduate students … will find Hampsher-Monk's edition to be a highly informative guide to one of the most fascinating periods in the history of British political thought. It will also be of interest to tutors and researchers dealing with the issues of Britain's intellectual history, the development of modern political thought and the intellectual impact of the French revolution on European conceptual history. An obvious advantage of this edition is its comprehensive approach in the presentation of individual texts, as well as the dialogical dynamic that it introduces between the texts. … This book gives the reader an opportunity to gain an overall perspective into the broad political spectrum of opinions represented in Britain at that time …' Political Studies Review
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521579117 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521579112 |
| Title | The Impact of the French Revolution |
| Author | Iain Hampsher-Monk |
| Series | Cambridge Readings In The History Of Political Thought |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2005-08-11 |
| Number of pages | 366 |
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