Suchergebnisse

pt. 1, 1. Radical anticipation, c.1775-1791 : the case for optimism ; 2. Liberal expectations, c.1775-1791 : the rationale for acceptance ; 3. Conservative doubts, c.1774-1791 : the argument for caution -- pt. 2, 4. Conservative reaction, c.1792-1820 : the case for rejection ; 5. Liberal engagement, c.1792-1820 : the argument for cooperation ; 6. Radical attraction, c.1792-1820 : the need for utopia ; 7. Epilogue : William Cobbett and America.

Dans les deux dernières décennies, les écrits en langue anglaise portant sur la réaction des conservateurs britanniques face à la Révolution française ont étudié le loyalisme britannique à l'échelle locale, et dans des couches sociales bien plus vastes que les seules élites gouvernantes. La question soulevée est celle de savoir comment l'État britannique a autorisé et même encouragé les classes moyennes et populaires à prendre part à la défense de sa constitution élitiste.

The responses of British people to the French Revolution has recently received considerable attention from historians. British commentators often expressed a sense of the novelty and scale of European wars which followed, yet their views on this conflict have not yet attracted such thorough examination. This book offers a wide-ranging exploration of the attitudes of various groups of British people to the conflict during the 1790's: the Government, their supporters and their opponents inside and outside Parliament, women, churchmen, and the broad mass of British public opinion. It presents the debate in England and Scotland provoked by the war both as the sequel to the French Revolution and as a distinct debate in itself. Emma Vincent Macleod argues that contemporaries saw this conflict as one of the first since the wars of religion to be significantly shaped by ideological hostility rather than solely by a struggle over strategic interests.