French Revolution Debate in Britain
French Revolution Debate in Britain

Author: Gregory Claeys

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2007-03-22

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1137048921

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Gregory Claeys explores the reception of the French Revolution in Britain through the medium of its leading interpreters. Claeys argues that the major figures - Thomas Paine, Edmund Burke, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin and John Thelwall - collectively laid the foundations for political debate for the following century, and longer.

Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine

Author: Gregory Claeys

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-09-23

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1000158691

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This book investigates Thomas Paine's social and political thought in both its British and American moments. It examines the ways in which Paine's ideas were understood. The book restores him to the position his contemporaries accorded him, that of an important writer on politics and society.