A war of ideas
Subtitle: British attitudes to the wars against revolutionary France, 1792-1802
By: Emma Vincent Macleod.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hampshire, G.B; Brookfield, Vt., USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Public opinion -- Great Britain.; France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Campaigns -- Foreign public opinion, British.
Description: This book offers a wide-ranging exploration of the attitudes of various groups of British people to the conflicts which followed the French Revolution: the government, their supporters and their opponents inside and outside Parliament, women, churchmen, and the mass of British public opinion. It presents the debate in England and Scotland provoked by the war both as the sequel to the French Revolution and as a distinct debate in itself. The author argues that contemporaries saw this conflict as one of the first since the wars of religion to be significantly shaped by ideological hostility as well as by strategic interests.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-231) and index.
Originally presented as the author's thesis.