Radicalism and Revolution in Britain 1775-1848

1. Front Matter

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2. ‘The Friends of America’: British Sympathy with the American Revolution

   • H. T. Dickinson

   Pages 1-29

3. Two Doubting Thomases: the British Progressive Enlightenment and the French Revolution

   • Jack Fruchtman Jr.

   Pages 30-40

4. The Political Showman at Home: Reflections on Popular Radicalism and Print Culture in the 1790s

   • Jon Mee

   Pages 41-55

5. The Pop-Gun Plot, 1794

   • Clive Emsley

   Pages 56-68

6. John Thelwall’s Political Ambivalence: Reform and Revolution

   • Michael Scrivener

   Pages 69-83

7. Wondering about Wonders: Paine, Constâncio and The Age of Reason, 1794–97

   • Hélio Osvaldo Alves

   Pages 84-95

8. The United Irishmen and the Politics of Banishment, 1798–1807

   • Michael Durey

   Pages 96-109

9. ‘Good for the Public Example’: Daniel Isaac Eaton, Prosecution, Punishment and Recognition, 1793–1812

   • Michael T. Davis

   Pages 110-132

10. A Loyal Englishman?: John Lloyd and Aspects of Oath-taking in 1812

    • Bernadette Turner

    Pages 133-142

11. Spreading the Radical Word: The Circulation of William Hone’s 1817 Liturgical Parodies

    • Kyle Grimes

    Pages 143-156

12. Political Economy and Popular Education: Thomas Hodgskin and the London Mechanics’ Institute, 1823–8

    • Gregory Claeys

    Pages 157-175

13. ‘Rural War’ and the Missing Revolution in Early Nineteenth-century England

    • Ian Dyck

    Pages 176-190

14. Whiggery and America: Accommodating the Radical Threat

    • Paul Crook

    Pages 191-206

15. Controlling the Riots: Dickens, Barnaby Rudge and Romantic Revolution

    • Iain McCalman

    Pages 207-227

16. Back Matter

    Pages 228-242

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The spectre of revolution and the nature of radicalism in Britain from the late eighteenth century through to the age of the Chartists has for some time engaged the interest of scholars and been the topic of much debate. This book honours one of the subject's most renowned and respected historians, Professor Malcolm I. Thomis. In a collection distinguished by its formidable range of contributors, a series of stimulating essays explores and re-examines the threats and ideas of revolution and the byzantine networks and character of British radical culture in the turbulent and intriguing years between 1775 and 1848.

• Age of Enlightenment
• Britain
• Byzantine
• culture
• economy
• eighteenth century
• England
• enlightenment
• essay
• French revolution
• knowledge
• progressive
• reason
• Romanticism
• subject

MICHAEL T. DAVIS was an undergraduate and postgraduate student whose research was supervised at the University of Queensland by Malcolm I. Thomis. Since completing his PhD in 1995 he has been an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow in History at the University of Queensland. He is currently writing two histories of the London Corresponding Society and the Scottish Martyrs of the 1790s (both forthcoming from Macmillan).

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