The Friends of Liberty: The English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution

In: Routledge Library Editions: The French Revolution

In: Routledge Library Editions: the French Revolution Ser

Abstract

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of illustrations -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: The influence of the French revolution on the movement for parliamentary reform and on the evolution of British working-class radicalism -- 2 The radical tradition in the eighteenth century -- 3 From toleration to participation: The Dissenting interest and the campaign for the abolition of the Test and Corporation Acts, 1787-90 -- 4 The English friends of French liberty and Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France -- 5 The origins of provincial radicalism, 1790-2 -- 6 The great debate: The polarization of English politics and Painite radicalism, 1791-2 -- 7 English radicalism in the wake of the French revolution and the Loyalist reaction, 1792-3 -- 8 War, repression and the British Convention, February- December 1793 -- 9 Confrontation and the treason trials of 1794 -- 10 The rise of the protest movement -- Pitt's 'Reign of Terror' and the decline of the popular societies, 1795-7 -- 11 The Irish dimension and Anglo-Irish clandestine radicalism, 1797-8 -- 12 The suppression of the radical societies, the opposition to the Combination Laws, and the radical legacy -- Appendices -- 1 Three versions of the London Corresponding Society's Joint Address to the French National Convention, 27 September 1792 -- 2 List of addresses from English reform societies to the French National Convention (November, December 1792) -- 3 Numbers and location of provincial radical societies in Great Britain in 1797 -- Select bibliography -- Index.