English Historians on the French Revolution

A study of the historiography of the Revolution, demonstrating the successive stages of British opinion.

Zusammenfassung
This study of the nineteenth-century historiography of the French Revolution shows how British opinion changes with the times. Sinyth, Carlyle, Allson, Croker, Acton and others are considered both as individual writers and as part of a school with certain common aims and methods and a shared a political point of view.

Inhalt

Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Part I. The Formation of a View: 1. The first decade; 2. History in time of war; 3. English history vis-à-vis the Bourbons (1815 1830); 4. The memoirs; 5. William Smyth; 6. Revolution and reform (1830 1832); 7. The French Revolution and the romantic movement in historiography; 8. Carlyle and the French Revolution; 9. Between 1830 and 1848; 10. Studies of Robespierre; 11. John Wilson Croker; Part II. The Waning of a Tradition: 12. The Revolution of 1848; 13. 1848 1870; 14. English history comes of age; 15. Lord Acton; 16. Conclusions; Bibliographies; Index.