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First digital paperback edition. |
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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
Originally published by Manchester University Press 2000. First digital paperback edition published 2012. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Monarchy -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Monarchy. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
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18th century |
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Monarchy -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Monarchy -- Great Britain -- Public opinion -- History -- 18th century.
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Public opinion. |
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Monarchy -- Great Britain -- Public opinion -- History -- 19th century.
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Regicides -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Regicides. |
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Regicides -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 18th century.
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Politics and government. |
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Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 19th century.
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Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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| Chronological Term |
1700-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Editions: |
Electronic reproduction (manifestation): Poole, Steve, 1957- Politics of regicide in England, 1760-1850. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2012. viii, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm (OCoLC)779244588 |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Poole, Steve. Politics of Regicide in England, 1760-1850 : Troublesome Subjects. Manchester : Manchester University Press, ©2018 |
| ISBN |
9781526130617 (electronic book) |
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1526130610 (electronic book) |
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