'Those who have squinted at versions of these trials on Eighteenth-Century Collections Online will be pleased to find the facsimiles here 'digitally cleaned and enhanced'. No less welcome is Barrell and Mee's stellar editorial apparatus' The Huntingdon Library Quarterly

The period 1792-94 witnessed the emergence of the first genuinely popular radical movement in Britain. After the phenomenal success of Thomas Paine's "Rights of Man", the government moved swiftly to prevent French republican ideas taking hold in Britain, beginning with the prosecution of Paine himself in absentia. This book focuses on this period.
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The period 1792-94 witnessed the emergence of the first genuinely popular radical movement in Britain. After the phenomenal success of Thomas Paine's "Rights of Man", the government moved swiftly to prevent French republican ideas taking hold in Britain, beginning with the prosecution of Paine himself in absentia. This book focuses on this period.
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Part II Volumes 6 and 7 The Trial of John Horne Tooke for High Treason (1795) Volume 8 The Trial of John Thelwall in State Trials for High Treason (1794); John Thelwall, The Natural and Constitutional Rights of Britons ...intended to have been delivered at the Bar of the OLD BAILEY (1795); Thomas Holcroft, A Narrative of Facts, relating to a Prosecution for High Treason (1795); Jeremiah Joyce, An Account of the Author's Arrest for "Treasonable Practices" (1795); Thomas Hardy, Memoirs (1832); John Thelwall, Life (1837)
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ISBN
9781851968114
Publisert
2007-05-01
Utgiver
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Vekt
2654 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
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Product language
Engelsk
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Antall sider
1472

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