Description
First Published in 1965. This is a general account of the influence on English history of the period of the French Revolution. This volume seeks to fill that gap and to sketch an outline of the workings in force that penetrated English life, directly and by reaction, far into the nineteenth century. The general thread of politics, theory, and literature are traced, and concrete illustration is also supplied from the experiences of individuals, poets, politicians, and working men. Some unused material remains in the Public Record Office, the British Museum, and in the Privy Council records ; and this has been drawn upon. Printed biographies, pamphlets, and newspapers supply the bulk of the evidence.
Table of Contents
AUTHOR’S PREFACE, NOTE TO FIRST EDITION, CHAPTER I The Seventeen-Eighties, CHAPTER II The Revolution and English Opinion, CHAPTER III The Revolution and Reform in England, CHAPTER IV Burke and the Reaction, CHAPTER V Conflict, CHAPTER VI The State Trials of 1794, CHAPTER VII Reform and Physical Force, CHAPTER VIII After the Trials, CHAPTER IX The Revolution’s Secondary Effects—Reaction, CHAPTER X The Revolution’s Secondary Effects—Impulse, Index, BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ???? to the 1965 edition
