Counter-Factuals
Linda Colley, 1 November 1984
The Origins of Anglo-American Radicalism
edited by Margaret Jacob and James Jacob.
Allen and Unwin, 333 pp., £18.50, February 1984,0 04 909015 1 Show More
edited by Margaret Jacob and James Jacob.
Allen and Unwin, 333 pp., £18.50, February 1984,
Insurrection: The British Experience 1795-1803
by Roger Wells.
Alan Sutton, 312 pp., £16, May 1983,9780862990190 Show More
by Roger Wells.
Alan Sutton, 312 pp., £16, May 1983,
Radicalism and Freethought in 19th-Century Britain
by Joel Wiener.
Greenwood, 285 pp., $29.95, March 1983,0 313 23532 5 Show More
by Joel Wiener.
Greenwood, 285 pp., $29.95, March 1983,
For King, Constitution and Country: The English Loyalists and the French Revolution
by Robert Dozier.
Kentucky, 213 pp., £20.90, February 1984,9780813114903 Show More
by Robert Dozier.
Kentucky, 213 pp., £20.90, February 1984,
“... Just the place for a snark, the Bellman said. And with equal assurance, political activists from Tom Paine to Friedrich Engels and historians from Elie Halévy to Edward Thompson have hailed 18th and 19th-century Britain as just the place for a revolution. For superficially – though only superficially – the conditions seem to have been almost ideal ... ”