Vindiciæ Gallicæ: Defence of the French Revolution: A Critical Edition (Studies in Modern History)

This new edition offers an extensive editor's introduction, a fully annotated text of the first edition of Vindiciæ Gallicæ and an appendix which includes the significant substantive revisions that Mackintosh made to Vindiciæ Gallicæ in the late summer of 1791. This new edition offers an extensive editor's introduction, a fully annotated text of the first edition of Vindicia Gallica and an appendix which includes the significant substantive revisions that Mackintosh made to Vindicia Gallica in the late summer of 1791. James Mackintosh's (1765-1832) Vindicia Gallica (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. Charles James Fox, the Whig Opposition leader, rated it as the finest defence of the French Revolution. This edition offers an extensive editor's introduction, a fully annotated text of the first edition of Vindicia Gallica and an appendix which includes the significant substantive revisions that Mackintosh made to it in the late summer of 1791. The editor's introduction establishes the impressive critical reception of Vindicia Gallica, explains how Mackintosh placed the French Revolution within the framework of 'philosophical' history, and examines how he responded to the growing European counterrevolution in the later editions of Vindicia Gallica James Mackintosh's (1765-1832) Vindicĭ Gallic̆ (1791) was a brilliant reply to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France and Charles-Alexandre de Calonne's De l'̌tat de la France. Charles James Fox, the Whig Opposition leader, rated it as the finest defence of the French Revolution. This edition offers an extensive editor's introduction, a fully annotated text of the first edition of Vindicĭ Gallic̆ and an appendix which includes the significant substantive revisions that Mackintosh made to it in the late summer of 1791. The editor's introduction establishes the impressive critical reception of Vindicĭ Gallic̆, explains how Mackintosh placed the French Revolution within the framework of 'philosophical' history, and examines how he responded to the growing European counterrevolution in the later editions of Vindicĭ Gallic̆ Front Matter....Pages i-2 Introduction....Pages 3-9 The General Expediency and Necessity of a Revolution in France.....Pages 10-60 Of the Composition and Character of the NATIONAL ASSEMBLY....Pages 61-78 Popular Excesses which attended the Revolution....Pages 79-97 New Constitution of France....Pages 98-136 English Admirers vindicated....Pages 137-164 Back Matter....Pages 165-183 This new edition offers an extensive editor's introduction, a fully annotated text of the first edition of Vindiciae Gallicae and an appendix which includes the significant substantive revisions that Mackintosh made to Vindiciae Gallicae in the late summer of 1791.