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Britain in the Age of the French Revolution, 1785-1820.
by Jennifer Mori (Harlow: Longman, for Pearson Education, 2000; pp. 259. Pb. 17.99 [pounds sterling]).
There has been a considerable amount of scholarship devoted to the study of Britain and the revolutionary period in the last thirty years, with E. P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class (1968) marking and instigating the resurgence of interest in the period. This endeavour has questioned a great deal of earlier orthodoxy but there is no new consensus, except in the agreement that the period is hugely fruitful and challenging for historians. It demands an understanding of the economic and social changes associated with the emergence of new urban centres …
