The Politics of English Jacobinism : Writings of John Thelwall / Gregory Claeys.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Claeys, Gregory, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Radicalism.

Jacobins.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (597 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

University Park, PA : Pennsylvania State University Press, [1995]

Summary:

After Thomas Paine fled to France in 1792, John Thelwall was the most important leader of working-class radicalism in Britain. According to one observer, he was "one of the boldest political writers, speakers, and lecturers of his time." But his contribution to social and political thought has been underappreciated by modern historians of political thought. In this volume, Gregory Claeys attempts to restore Thelwall to his rightful place by reproducing for the first time his major political writings: The Natural and Constitutional Rights of Britons, the Tribune writings, Sober Reflections on the Seditious and Inflammatory Letter of the Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke to a Noble Lord, and The Rights of Nature, Against the Usurpations of Establishments. These works tell us much about the 1790s reform movement in Britain. They also show the innovation of Thelwall's thought, which began to move in directions quite dissimilar from his better-known compatriots like Paine. Thelwall's emphasis on the poor and the means by which the working classes received a just reward for their labor were to be central themes in the radical movement of the following century.

Contents:

Intro

COVER Front

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: BEING A VINDICATION OF THE MOTIVES AND POLITICAL CONDUCT OF JOHN THELWALL, AND OF THE LONDON CORRESPONDING SOCIETY, IN GENERAL

Chapter 2: ADVERTISEMENT

Chapter 3: THE TRIBUNE, A PERIODICAL PUBLICATION CONSISTING CHIEFLY OF THE POLITICAL LECTURES OF J. THELWALL

Chapter 4: On the EXHAUSTED STATE of our NATIONAL RESOURCES and the consequent CONDITION of our LABOURERS and MANUFACTURERS

Chapter 5: Comparison between the Guilt of a COMMON MURDERER, and the DELIBERATE PROJECTOR OF UNNECESSARY WAR

Chapter 6 : Lecture

On the MORAL and POLITICAL Influence of the Prospective Principle of Virtue

Chapter 7: THE TRIBUNE, No.XI: Saturday 23D May 1795

Chapter 9: THHE TRIBUNE. No XVII. THE SECOND LECTURE on the Causes of the present DEARNESS and SCARCITY of PROVISIONS delivered Friday May 1st 1795

Chapter 10: THE TRIBUNE No. XXV. Report on the STATE OF POPULAR OPINION and the Causes of the rapid Diffusion of DEMCRATIC PRINCIPLES. Part the Second Including Definitiions of Democracy Aristocracy and Monarchy. Original Meaning AMBITIION Delivered at the Lecture Room Beaufort Buildings September 9th 1795.

Chapter 11: WHAT IS THE CONSTITUTION OF BRITAIN?

Chapter 12: THE TRIBUNE No. XXX On the Causes of the CALAMITIES and DISTURBANES that affict the Nation. Part the Second- Including a Vindcation of the moral CHARACTER Calumnies of their OPPESSORS : with Sketches of the Carving Misery of the BRITISH PEASANTRY . Delivered at the LECTURE ROOM sept 25 1795.

Chapter 13: TH TRIBUNE, No. XXXIV The 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 Industrous Poor and Reflections on the Metaphysical Sophistries of Windham and the pious Ravins of BURKE DElivered Friday October 9 1795

Chapter 14: SOBER REFLECTIONS ON THE SEDITIOUS AND INFLAMMATORY LETTER OF THE RIGHT HON EDNUND BURKE TO A NOBLE LORD ADRESSED TO THE SERIOUS CONDIDERATION OF HISFELLOW CITIZENS

Chapter 15: RIGHTS OF NATURE AGAINST THE USURPATIONS OF ESTABLISH MENTS A SERIES OF LETTERS TO THE PEOPLE IN REPLY YO THE FALSE PRINCPLES OF BURKE

Chapter 16: First Principles: or Elements og Natural and Social Rights The Origin and Distribution of Property And

The Feudal System

Chapter 17: POSTSCRPT TO THE THIRD EDITION

Chapter 18: Letter 2 First Principles :or Elements of Natural and Social Rights

Chapter 19: LETTER III Originand Distribution of Property

INDEX.

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ISBN:

9780271097725

0271097728