Debating the Revolution

Britain in the 1790s (International Library of Historical Studies)

by Chris Evans

2006 256 pages eng

"The 1790s was a fateful period for Britain. The French Revolution of 1789 opened an era of seismic political upheaval, one in which many features of the modern world made their first significant appearance. Democracy, mass nationalism, wholesale military mobilisation, and anti-colonial revolt all m…