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The politics of regicide in England, 1760-1850 : troublesome subjects /
This lively and accessible book reappraises the often complex relationship between British monarchs and some of their more troublesome subjects in the 'age of revolutions'. By exposing a rationale behind the efforts of the mad and the politically disaffected to intrude upon, assault or pes...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester ; New York :
Manchester University Press,
[2018]
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| Edición: | First digital paperback edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- THE POLITICS OF REGICIDE IN ENGLAND, 1760-185O; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: monarchy, contractualism and history; Monarchy and the historical imagination; Constitutional contract theory and the Whig tradition ineighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England; 2 The Crown and the secular magic of petition; Petition and the secular divinity of 'the touch'; Petitioning the throne in custom and practice; Early murmurs of discontent: popular resistance to George IIIfrom Wilkes to Sayre
- 3 Monarchy and the policing of insanityBow Street and the security of the monarch; Prosecuting troublesome subjects; 4 The madness of Margaret Nicholson; Treason negated: Nicholson and the familial nation; Some contexts: Damiens, Byng, Tyrie and Gordon; Madness constructed; Nicholson and the public; Nicholson and petitioning; 5 Treason compassed: popular mobilisation and physicality in the1790s; Madness, law and the levelling stone of John Frith, 1790; Political plots and constructive treason: the LCS, petitioningand resistance; My Lord, I have been shot at!' The St James's Park riot, 1795
- Aftermath6 Lunacy and politics at fin de siècle, 1800-3; Cheating death twice, 15 May 1800; The Hadfield Act; An epidemic of lunatics: troublesome subjects after Hadfield,1800-2; The guards' plot of 1802: Despard and king killing; 7 The potatoes speak for themselves: regicide, radicalism andGeorge IV, 1811-30; Resistance rehearsed; Resistance reconsidered; Peterloo and beyond; 8 Collins in context: William IV, affability and the reform crisis,1830-37; Affability and the citizen King; The case of Dennis Collins, 1832; Politics and the patriot King
- 9 Monarchy goes private: Peel's Protection Act and the retreat fromapproachability, 1837-50Oxford, Francis and Bean; Interpretation and punishment; Peel's Royal Protection Act, 1842; The Crown and Government Security Act, 1848; An English queen's castle is her home: privacy, intrusion andthe early Victorian monarchy; 10 Conclusion; Select bibliography; Index