Liberty's Apostle - Richard Price, His Life and Times (Wales and the French Revolution) - Softcover

Frame, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1783162163 ISBN 13: 9781783162161

Verlag: University of Wales Press, 2015

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Born in the village of Llangeinor, near Bridgend in south Wales, Richard Price (1723-91) was, to his contemporaries, an apostle of liberty, an enemy to tyranny and a great benefactor of the human race. His friend Benjamin Franklin described aspects of his work as `the foremost production of human understanding that this century has afforded us'. A supporter of the American and French Revolutions, Price corresponded with the likes of Jefferson, Adams, Washington, Mirabeau and Condorcet. In November 1789 he publicly welcomed the start of the French Revolution and thus inspired not only Edmund Burke to write his rebuttal in Reflections on the Revolution in France, but also the Revolution Controversy, `the most crucial ideological debate ever carried on in English'. Price also brought to world attention the Bayes-Price Theorem on probability, which is the invisible background to so much in modern life, and wrote a fundamental text on moral philosophy. Yet, despite all this and more, he remains little-known beyond academia, a situation that this biography helps to rectify. Liberty's Apostle tells his life story through his published works and, fully for the first time, his now published correspondence with a host of eighteenth century celebrities. The life revealed is of a truly remarkable Welshman and, as Condorcet remarked, of `one of the formative minds' of the eighteenth century Enlightenment.

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History students at school and university, particularly those studying the Enlightenment, the history of religious dissent, of the American and French Revolutions and eighteenth century politics. General readers of all adult ages.

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• Verlag: University of Wales Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1783162163
• ISBN 13: 9781783162161
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 368