Richard Price and a transnational network of dissent

Richard Price’s Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty (1776), Observations of the Importance of the American Revolution (1785) and Discourse on the Love of Our Country (1790) were important interventions in the English political debate linking the radicalism of the American independence movement and the early events of the French Revolution. His work can thus be interpreted within the framework of the notion of an «Atlantic Revolution» connecting these events. Although Price rarely left his house in Newington Green in north London his relations with a number of influential figures such as Lord Shelburne, Abbé Morellet, Benjamin Franklin, Ann-Robert Turgot, Honoré Riqueti Count Mirabeau, and Joan Derk Van der Capellen testify to the importance of looking at Price himself as well as the texts he produced as acting within in this transnational framework.