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John Jebb and the Enlightenment Origins of British Radicalism.

Publication: Albion
Publication Date: 22-SEP-04
Format: Online - approximately 737 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: John Jebb and the Enlightenment Origins of British Radicalism.(Book Review)

Article Excerpt
Anthony Page. John Jebb and the Enlightenment Origins of British Radicalism. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishers. 2003. Pp. xii, 309. $68.95. ISBN 0-275-97775-7.

Overshadowed by John Wilkes, Major John Cartwright, Christopher Wyvill, Richard Price, Joseph Priestley, James Burgh, and John Horne Tooke, John Jebb (1736-86) is among the more forgotten figures of the last decades of eighteenth-century British political culture prior to the emergence of plebeian political involvement with the French Revolution and formation of the London Corresponding Society. A full-length study of him, where none has existed previously, is thus certainly welcome. This careful, detailed analysis makes good use of its sources to detail the evolution of Jebb the...

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