Vindiciae Gallicae

defence of the French Revolution: a critical edition

James Mackintosh's "Vindiciae Gallicae" (1791) was a brilliant reply to Edmund Burke's "Reflections on the Revolution in France" and Charles-Alexandre de Calonne's "De l'etat de la France". Whig Opposition leader Charles James Fox rated it as the finest defence of the ...

The british working class, 1832-1940

In this insightful new study, Andrew August examines the British working class in the period when Britain became a mature industrial power, working men and women dominated massive new urban populations, and the extension of suffrage brought them into the political nation for the first ...

Herbert Butterfield and the interpretation of history

This book examines successive stages in the development of the thought of Sir Herbert Butterfield in relation to fundamental issues in the science of history. In a carefully nuanced way it lays bare the unspoken motivations and hidden tensions in Butterfield's debate with himself ...

War, religion and court patronage in Habsburg Austria

the social and cultural dimensions of political interaction, 1521-1622

This case study of the causes of the Thirty Years' War suggests an alternative framework to that of Absolutism, and views statebuilding as an interactive bargaining process that can engender challenges to political authority. It shows how selective court patronage changed the cultural habits of ...