Claeys, Gregory

French Revolution Debate in Britain - Red Globe Press 2007 - 264 pages

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.

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Biography & Autobiography

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