Introduction; VINDICIAE GALLICAE -- Defence of the French Revolution and Its English Admirers Against the Accusations of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke; Including Some Strictures on the Late Production of Mons. De Calonne (London, 1791); A Letter to the Right Honourable William Pitt on His Apostacy from the Cause of Parliamentary Reform (London, 1792); Appendix to A Letter to the Right Honourable William Pitt; A Discourse on the Law of Nature and Nations; Appendix to the Discourse: Extracts from the Lectures; "On the State of France in 1815", Edinburgh Review, no. 48, February 1815; Appendix to "On the State of France in 1815"; Chronology of James Mackintoshs Life; Selective Chronology of Events Relating to the French Revolution and Parliamentary Reform in Britain; Dramatis Personae; Index; INDICIAE GALLICAE -- Defence of the French Revolution and Its English Admirers Against the Accusations of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke; Including Some Strictures on the Late Production of Mons. De Calonne (London, 1791); A Letter to the Right Honourable William Pitt on His Apostacy from the Cause of Parliamentary Reform (London, 1792); Appendix to A Letter to the Right Honourable William Pitt; A Discourse on the Law of Nature and Nations; Appendix to the Discourse: Extracts from the Lectures; On the State of France in 1815, Edinburgh Review, no. 48, February 1815; Appendix to "On the State of France in 1815"; Chronology of James Mackintoshs Life; Selective Chronology of Events Relating to the French; Revolution and Parliamentary Reform in Britain; Dramatis Personae; Index.
James Mackintosh; Edited by Donald Winch
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This book is richly endowed with useful critical apparatus: in
addition to an introduction, brief but accurate and well written,
the reader can make use of a chronology of principal events of the
Revolution and of their repercussions in Britain, as well as a list
of dramatis personae of more than 200 names, not to mention a
meticulously detailed index. This work is recommended for all those
who wish to understand or who wish to help others understand that
the English debate on the French Revolution cannot be reduced
merely to the confrontation of Burke and of Paine.
Etudes Anglaises - 63-1 (2010)
In one convenient volume, Winch has brought together a selection of
Mackintosh's writing from the onset of the Revolution to his
reflections on the state of France in 1815, allowing the reader to
trace the development of Mackintosh's political views.
VindiciaeGallicae was the response of a philosophic Whig on the
development of the French Revolution up to the spring of 1791.
Inspired by the debate over Edmund Burke's Reflections on the
Revolution in France, Mackintosh supported the Revolution and
contested Burke's diagnosis both of events in France and of the
nature of the English constitution. He defended English admirers of
the Revolution and even justified the popular excesses that
followed. His Letter to William Pitt is a vilification of Pitt's
desertion from the cause of reform, which he had supported in the
1780s. It accused Pitt of having used reform merely as a tool for
acquiring political power and castigated him for his opposition to
it in 1792. Mackintosh reaffirmed his support for the Revolution
but disclaimed any notion that parliamentary reform in England was
allied to the Revolutionary principles of France. Revolutionary
excess later compelled him to agree with Burke, and in A Discourse
on the Law of Nature and Nations, written in 1799, Mackintosh
recanted his support for Revolutionary France. In On the State of
France in 1815, he reflected on French society after the years of
war and revolution. Winch introduces each of Mackintosh's essays,
provides chronologies of Mackintosh's life and of significant
events between 1787 and 1815 relating to the French Revolution and
parliamentary reform in Britain, and adds a Dramatis Personae of
the period. In addition to the original footnotes, informative
editorial notes identify sources and provide translations, and the
original pagination has been included in the text.
Eighteenth-Century Scotland
Spring 2007
Vindiciae Gallicae and Other Writings on the French Revolution is
the first modern and fully annotated version of the work of British
Parliament member, lawyer, moral philosopher, and historian Sir
James Mackintosh (1765-1832): Vindiciae Gallicae, a defense of the
French Revolution, and an additional voice to the debate stirred by
his famous contemporary Sir Edmund Burke's treatise "Reflections on
the Revolution in France". Mackintosh's other presented writings
include "A Letter to the Right Honourable William Pitt on His
Apostacy from the Cause of Parliamentary Reform", "A Discourse on
the Law of Nature and nations", and "On the State of France in
1815". Select chronologies, a Dramatis Personae, and an index round
out this excellent edition of historical and political writings,
highly recommended for college library shelves.
Midwest Book Review
May 2006
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