MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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British failure to formulate an effective response to events in France.
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the Terror sweeping through France.
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France’s inability to evolve from constitutional monarchy to republic.
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France’s departure from its ancient traditions and history.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the Reflections, Burke argued that the French Revolution would end disastrously because its abstract foundations, purportedly rational, ignored the complexities of human nature and society.
Detailed explanation-2: -political writer Edmund Burke, whose Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) was a forceful expression of conservatives’ rejection of the French Revolution and a major inspiration for counterrevolutionary theorists in the 19th century.
Detailed explanation-3: -He criticised the actions of the British government towards the American colonies, including its taxation policies. Burke also supported the rights of the colonists to resist metropolitan authority, although he opposed the attempt to achieve independence.
Detailed explanation-4: -In Reflections on the Revolution in France, Burke expounds on the folly of this particular revolution based on what he sees as a series of fundamental misunderstandings by those championing the Rights of Man. He cautions any country to remember its character and society over any single entity.