Clive Emsley provides a concise yet wide-ranging introduction to the impact of the French Revolution on Britain and how its effects have been assessed by historians.

Clive Emsley is Professor of History at the Open University and one of the two General Editors for the Seminar Studies in History Series.

An Introduction to the Series VI
Note on Referencing System Vll
Acknowledgements Vlll
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION 1
1. ISSUES AND HISTORIOGRAPHY 3
PART TWO: ANALYSIS 7
2. IDEAS 9
Burke and Paine 9
Radical Variations 13
Loyalist Responses 17
3. POLITICS 21
Whigs and Others 21
Radicals and Repression 29
Loyalism and Xenophobia 40
The Irish Experience 46
4. WAR 53
Causes and Course 53
Men, Money and Munitions 58
Famine 65
PART THREE: CONCLUSION 71
PART FOUR: DOCUMENTS 77
Who's Who 110
Bibliography 117
Index