The Politics of English Jacobinism: Writings of John Thelwall Contributor(s): Claeys, Gregory (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0271025913 ISBN-13: 9780271025919 Publisher: Penn State University Press OUR PRICE: $41.53 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1995 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - General - History | Europe - Great Britain - General - Literary Collections | Essays |
Dewey: 320.512 |
Lexile Measure: 1450 |
Physical Information: 1.47" H x 6.24" W x 8.98" (1.93 lbs) 596 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles |
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Publisher Description: After Thomas Paine fled to France in 1792, John Thelwall was the most important leader of working-class radicalism in Britain. According to one observer, he was one of the boldest political writers, speakers, and lecturers of his time. But his contribution to social and political thought has been underappreciated by modern historians of political thought. In this volume, Gregory Claeys attempts to restore Thelwall to his rightful place by reproducing for the first time his major political writings: The Natural and Constitutional Rights of Britons, the Tribune writings, Sober Reflections on the Seditious and Inflammatory Letter of the Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke to a Noble Lord, and The Rights of Nature, Against the Usurpations of Establishments. These works tell us much about the 1790s reform movement in Britain. They also show the innovation of Thelwall's thought, which began to move in directions quite dissimilar from his better-known compatriots like Paine. Thelwall's emphasis on the poor and the means by which the working classes received a just reward for their labor were to be central themes in the radical movement of the following century. |
Contributor Bio(s): Claeys, Gregory: - Gregory Claeys is Professor of the History of Political Thought at the University of London. His books include Thomas Paine: Social and Political Thought (1989) and Citizens and Saints: Politics and Anti-Politics in Early British Socialism (1989), and he is the editor of The Works of Robert Owen (1993). |