Richard Price (1723–91) is important in present-day historiography chiefly for the interpretation of two great revolutions, the American and the French. Recent studies have depicted him as insightfully forward-looking, a well-informed cosmopolitan, his thought providing an interpretive key to the Age of Revolutions, and so as a landmark figure of a singular Enlightenment. They have paid insufficient attention to his identity as a theologian, a Welsh-born Nonconformist minister of more defined outlook, spending his life in England and campaigning above all for the relief of Nonconformist grievances, picturing “tyranny” and “superstition” in conventional Nonconformist terms. This article offers a reconsideration of the significance of such a Price for the historical understanding of two major and (it contends) related problems: how did the American Revolution relate to the French in a supposed Age of Revolutions, and how should they be understood as putative episodes in the development of the Enlightenment?

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美国革命与法国人有何关系？理查德·普赖斯，革命时代和启蒙运动

理查德·普赖斯（Richard Price，1723-91 年）在当今的史学中很重要，主要是解释美国和法国的两次伟大革命。最近的研究将他描述为具有远见卓识、见多识广的世界主义者，他的思想为革命时代提供了解释性的钥匙，因此是奇异启蒙运动的标志性人物。他们对他作为神学家的身份关注不够，他是一位出生于威尔士、前景更加明确的不墨守成规的牧师，他在英格兰度过了一生，并首先为减轻不墨守成规的不满而进行竞选，在传统的不墨守成规中描绘了“暴政”和“迷信”条款。本文重新考虑了这样一个价格对于历史理解两个主要和（它认为）相关问题的重要性：