Why read Scotland and the French Revolution?

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1 author picked Scotland and the French Revolution as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Emma Macleod

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This is very much the oldest of my choices, and there are some great recent books on Scotland in the 1790s, but for me, this one still stands up for detail, excitement, clarity, and pace.

I live in Edinburgh, where much of the central action in this book takes place—there were radical reform societies all over Lowland Scotland in the 1790s, but they sent delegates to national conventions in Edinburgh, and Edinburgh was where many of the state trials for treason and sedition took place.

From Emma's list on The best books on British political debate in the age of revolutions.