Arraying Minds against Bodies

Benthamite Radicals and Revolutionary Europe during the 1820s and 1830s

Bibliographic Data

ID9878751
AuthorsMichael J Turner (0000-0002-5428-2635, University of Sunderland, corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume90
Issue298
Pages236-261
Publication date2005-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0018-2648 • E-ISSN: 1468-229X
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1468-229x.2005.00331.x
OpenAlexW1992405023
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited7

While a good deal has been written about the contacts between British and continental reformers in 1848 and afterwards, the same cannot be said of the 1820s and 1830s. This article will investigate the involvement in European affairs of Thomas Perronet Thompson and John Bowring, two of the closest colleagues of the utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham. This article has three main purposes: first, to establish the relevance to British radicalism of a European perspective, using Thompson and Bowring as exemplars who can be taken to represent one of the most important strands in the British radicalism of their day; secondly, to improve our understanding of reform agitation and ideologies in early nineteenth-century Britain and Europe; and, thirdly, in view of the customary focus of historians on 1848 and after, to begin to redress this imbalance in the historiography by drawing attention to the 1820s and 1830s

Art · Historiography · Ideology · Jeremy bentham · Perspective (graphical · Political radicalism · Political science · Politics · Redress · Relevance (law · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Australian History and Society · European Political History Analysis · History · Law

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