Britain and the French Revolution Seminar Studies Series

The French Revolution catapulted Europe into a new period of political upheaval, social change, and into the modern era.

This book provides a concise introduction to the impact of the French Revolution on Britain and to the ways in which this impact has been assessed by historians.

The book is organised thematically. It begins with a survey of the ideological debate sparked off by the Revolution discussing, in particular, the work of people such as Burke, Paine, Spence and Wollstonecraft. From here it presents an exploration of the Revolution s impact on

* Parliamentary polities
* The growth of radicalism and loyalism
* The way in which French ideas influenced Irish aspirations to generate rebellion

The third main section of the book focuses on the causes and course of Britain s war with Revolutionary France, and on the effects of the war on the home front, most notably the recurrent, serious food shortages.

An Introduction to the Series VI
Note on Referencing System Vll
Acknowledgements Vlll
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION 1
1. ISSUES AND HISTORIOGRAPHY 3
PART TWO: ANALYSIS 7
2. IDEAS 9
Burke and Paine 9
Radical Variations 13
Loyalist Responses 17
3. POLITICS 21
Whigs and Others 21
Radicals and Repression 29
Loyalism and Xenophobia 40
The Irish Experience 46
4. WAR 53
Causes and Course 53
Men, Money and Munitions 58
Famine 65
PART THREE: CONCLUSION 71
PART FOUR: DOCUMENTS 77
Who's Who 110
Bibliography 117
Index

Clive Emsley is Professor of History at the Open University and one of the two General Editors for the Seminar Studies in History Series.