This well-argued and richly-detailed book concludes that the working-class radical movement was never able to prove a serious challenge to the stability of the British state; and, in fact, achieved very little in these years, except when operating in conjunction with the political movements and organizations of the middle class.

An authoritative study of the bloodless revolution which transformed Britain's political system.

Most philosophical writing is impersonal and argumentative, but many important philosophers have nevertheless written accounts of their own lives.Filling a gap in the market for a text focusing on autobiography as philosophy, this collection discusses several such autobiographies in the light of their authors' broader work, and considers whether there are any philosophical tasks for which life accounts are particularly appropriate.Instead of the common impersonal and argume...