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REFORMING
IDEAS IN BRITAIN:
Politics and Language in the Shadow of
the French Revolution, 1789–1815
Mark Philp
Published 28 November 2013
ISBN HB 9781107027282
GBP £65.00
Discount Price: £52.00
Contains 480 pages; 2 b/w illustrations
Reforming Ideas in Britain brings together a
series of essays to provide a vibrant
historiography of Britain's political thought and
movements during the 1790s and beyond.
Challenging traditional perceptions of the period,
Philp prompts us to reconsider the weight of
various ideas, interpretations and explanations of
British politics and language; showing us instead
that this dynamic world of popular politics was at
once more chaotic, innovative and open-minded
than historians have typically perceived it to be.
This is an essential interdisciplinary text for
scholars of history, political theory and
romanticism that offers a fresh perspective on
radicalism, loyalism and republicanism in Britain
during the French Revolution.
• Challenges traditional perceptions of radicalism
and loyalism in Britain during the French
Revolution
• Re-evaluates the weight of ideas,
interpretations and explanations of British
politics, writing and language during the vibrant
period of the 1790s and beyond
• Offers interdisciplinary coverage of key political
and literary figures, tracing the intellectual
currents and movements that prompted their rise
to significance
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PRAISE FOR PHILP
Reforming Ideas in Britain: Politics and
Language in the Shadow of the French
Revolution, 1789–1815
"Reforming Ideas in Britain will transform the way
in which political debate has conventionally been
studied and interpreted during the years of the
French Revolution and its aftermath…This is not
simply a new and exciting way of understanding
the debates around the French Revolution; it is
an approach to the understanding of the history
of ideas which ought to be employed in the study
of other periods of political contestation." - Gareth
Stedman Jones, Director, Centre for History and
Economics, King's College, Cambridge
Published 28 November 2013
ISBN HB 9781107027282
GBP £65.00
Discount Price: £52.00
Contains 480 pages; 2 b/w illustrations
"Philp asks questions about the thinkers and the
issues he discusses with a wonderfully developed
sense of the interaction of ideas, institutions,
cultural practices and events. He is at once a
historian, a political theorist, and a literary critic,
and I can’t think of anyone who exemplifies
better the benefits of working across the
boundaries of disciplines." - John Barrell, Centre for
Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York
"The war of political ideas that erupted in Britain
during the French Revolution was fierce and
consequential, laying out the battle-lines for the
democratic reform struggles of the nineteenth
century. No-one writes better about this
controversy than Mark Philp…Philp is invariably
insightful, wise, compelling. Anyone interested in
this turbulent phase of British history will want to
read and learn from this book." - Barbara Taylor,
Queen Mary University of London
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