Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Claeys, Gregory.

Description

1. lxii, 532 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

1. After Thomas Paine fled to France in 1792, John Thelwall was the most important leader of working-class radicalism in Britain. This work presents his major political writings which tell us much about the 1790s reform movement and the innovation and direction of Thelwall's thought.

Subject

1. 1700-1820
2. Geschichte 1795-1796
3. Jacobins > Great Britain
4. Radicalism > Great Britain > History > 18th century
5. British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900 > United Kingdom, Great Britain
6. Political science & theory > United Kingdom, Great Britain
7. Social & cultural history > United Kingdom, Great Britain
8. Political ideologies > United Kingdom, Great Britain
9. History
10. Jacobins
11. Politics and government
12. Radicalism
13. Quelle
14. Radikalismus
15. Jacobieten (Engeland)
16. Politieke meningen
17. Great Britain > Politics and government > 1789-1820
18. Great Britain
19. Großbritannien

Genre/Form

1. History.

Contents

1. Thelwall's Life and Times -- Thelwall's Intellectual Development and Significance -- Writings of John Thelwall -- Natural and Constitutional Right of Britons to Annual Parliaments, Universal Suffrage, and the Freedom of Popular Association (1795) -- Tribune (1795-96), Selections -- On the Means of Redressing the Calamities of the Nation -- On the Exhausted State of Our National Resources, and the Consequent Condition of Our Labourers and Manufacturers -- Duty and Interest of the People to Enquire into the Causes and Conduct of Wars, in the Guilt of Which They Are Involved, by Contributing to Their Support. -- From the Second Lecture on War -- On the Moral and Political Influence of the Prospective Principle of Virtue -- Second Lecture on the Moral and Political Influence of the Prospective Principle of Virtue -- On the Humanity and Benevolence of the Dutch Revolution, and the Causes of the Excesses in France. The Third Lecture on the Moral and Political Influence of the Prospective Principle of Virtue. With a Parallel Between the Character of Pitt and Robespierre -- Present War a Principal Cause of the Starving Condition of the People. -- The First Lecture "On the Causes of the Dearness and Scarcity of Provisions" -- Second Lecture on the Causes of the Present Dearness and Scarcity of Provisions -- Consequences of Depriving the Mass of the People of Their Share in the Representation. The Third Lecture "On the Causes of the Present Dearness and Scarcity of Provisions" -- Report on the State of Popular Opinion, and the Causes of the Rapid Diffusion of Democratic Principles. Part the Second. Including Definitions of Democracy, Aristocracy, and Monarchy. Original Meaning of the Word King -- Consequences of Ministerial Ambition, &c -- Report on the State of Popular Opinion, and Causes of the Increase of Democratic Principles. Part the Fifth. Including Sketches of the Affairs of Scotland and Ireland, with a History of the Progress of Defenderism, and Reflections on the Fate and Deportment of O'Connor -- On the Causes of the Calamities and Disturbances That Afflict the Nation. Part the Second -- Including a Vindication of the Moral Character of the Laborious Poor, Against the Insulting Calumnies of Their Oppressors; with Sketches of the Starving Misery of the British Peasantry -- Connection Between the Calamities of the Present Reign, and the System of Borough-Mongering Corruption -- Lecture the Second -- Including Sketches of the Connection Between the Growth of Taxation and Corruption, and the Increasing Miseries of the Industrious Poor; and Reflections on the Metaphysical Sophistries of Windham, and the Pious Ravings of [ect.] -- Connection Between the Calamities of the Present Reign, and the System of Borough-Mongering Corruption -- Lecture the Third. -- The Connection Between Parliamentary Corruption and Commercial Monopoly: With Strictures on the West-India Subscription, &c -- Second Lecture on the Unfortunate Restoration of the House of Stuart, with Strictures on the Differences Between the English Revolution 1649, and That of France, in 1792, and the Impossibility of Restoring Royalty in the Latter Country: Including a Delineation of the Character of Cromwell -- Warning Voice to the Violent of All Parties; with Reflections on the Events of the First Day of the Present Session of Parliament; and an Enquiry Whether Conciliatory or Coercive Measures Are Best Calculated to Allay Popular Ferments -- Sober Reflections on the Seditious and Inflammatory Letter of the Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke to a Noble Lord (1796) -- Rights of Nature, Against the Usurpations of Establishments (1796).

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [501]-525) and index.