The Scottish People and the French Revolution. By Bob Harris. Pp. viii, 340. ISBN: 9781851968848. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2008. £60.00.

Abstract

The Enlightenment World series, no.6. 2008. viii + 340pp. £60.00. Bob Harris's new book is a tribute both to his enormous capacity for research in a wide variety of archives and to his careful, thoughtful scholarship. This study of the popular political culture of Scotland during the 1790s is a detailed and perceptive analysis of a period in Scottish politics which has sometimes been characterised by general, sweeping Elite and government responses are here treated only insofar as they were responding to popular politics, rather than to the French Revolution and the war.The book begins with a chapter examining the eighteenth-century origins of radicalism in Scotland. Harris argues convincingly that, while these may not have been so