Over the past fifty years few historians have made such an excellent contribution to the learn of eighteenth-century Europe as Norman Hampson. He has written many books and diverse articles facing the Enlightenment and progressive France, whereas educating on the Universities of Manchester, Newcastle and York. via his writing and instructing, let alone his function within the Society for the examine of French heritage for which he was once the founding President, he has exerted a profound impact over a iteration of students. it really is to have fun those lasting achievements that Enlightenment and Revolution has been assembled. Taking a large cultural and highbrow strategy, this number of essays includes contributions through fellow students of eighteenth-century Europe, who write on themes with regards to the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, and who've identified him as colleague, manager or pal. overlaying such likely various matters as technology and armed forces reform, French curiosity in China, Atlantic slavery and the hyperlinks among Voltaire and Hume, and prefaced through an appraisal of the fellow in addition to the historian, those essays are associated through subject matters and methods that undergo the hallmark of Norman Hampson's effect. notwithstanding, Enlightenment and Revolution isn't really easily an appreciation of his paintings; the essays discover new subject matters within the background of the interval and reassess a few of the extra wide-spread points of Enlightenment and Revolution. As such, they supply a becoming tribute to the spirit and writings of Norman Hampson.
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