The British Periodical Press and the French Revolution, 1789-99
by Stuart Andrews
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This study challenges the conventional polarities used to describe British politics of the 1790s; Pitt versus Fox, Burke versus Paine, Church versus Dissent, ruling class versus working class, Jacobin versus anti-Jacobin. Such polarities were sedulously promoted by Pitt's wartime government, which applied 'Jacobin' shamelessly to all its critics and opponents, and thus foreshadowed the McCarthyite tactic of guilt by association. The author seeks to make the less strident but more persuasive show more contemporary voices again audible. He takes seriously those who questioned the necessity for Burke's crusade to destroy the French republic, and who deplored Britain's alliance with the partitioners of Poland. show lessTags
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Stuart Andrews was a scholar of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, in the 1950s, after national service in the Parachute Brigade. Besides teaching, he has worked as a librarian, the editor of a professional journal, as a school inspector and as a freelance lecturer. He has also been Headmaster of Norwich School and of Clifton College.
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- History, Nonfiction, Politics and Government, Business
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- 944.04 — History & geography History of Europe France and Monaco France Revolution 1789-1804
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- DC158.8 .A53 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania France – Andorra – Monaco History of France Modern, 1515- Revolutionary and Napoleonic period, 1789-1815
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