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French Revolution Debate in Britain: The Origins of Modern Politics (British History in Perspective)
French Revolution Debate in Britain The Origins of Modern Politics - British History in Perspective Author:Gregory Claeys 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.