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The Cato Street Conspiracy : Plotting, Counter-Intelligence and the Revolutionary Tradition in Britain and Ireland.
If the Cato Street Conspiracy had been successful, Britain would have been proclaimed a republic by tradesmen of English, Scots, Irish and black Jamaican backgrounds. This book explains the conspiracy, and why you have never heard of it.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2019.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Notes on contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction 'We only have to be lucky once': Cato Street, insurrection and the revolutionary tradition
- When did they know? The cabinet, informers and Cato Street
- Joining up the dots: contingency, hindsight and the British insurrectionary tradition
- The men they couldn't hang: 'sensible' radicals and the Cato Street Conspiracy
- Cato Street in international perspective
- Cato Street and the Caribbean
- Cato Street and the Spencean politics of transnational insurrection
- State witnesses and spies in Irish political trials, 1794-1803
- The shadow of the Pikeman: Irish craftsmen and British radicalism, 1803-20
- The fate of the transported Cato Street conspirators
- Scripted by whom? 1820 and theatres of rebellion
- Afterword
- Index