Political trials in an age of revolutions : Britain and the North Atlantic, 1793-1848 / Michael T. Davis, Emma Macleod, Gordon Pentland, editors.
2019
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Political trials in an age of revolutions : Britain and the North Atlantic, 1793-1848 / Michael T. Davis, Emma Macleod, Gordon Pentland, editors.
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9783319989594 (electronic book)
3319989596 (electronic book)
3319989588
9783319989587
3319989596 (electronic book)
3319989588
9783319989587
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Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan US, [2019]
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English
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This collection provides new insights into the 'Age of Revolutions', focussing on state trials for treason and sedition, and expands the sophisticated discussion that has marked the historiography of that period by examining political trials in Britain and the north Atlantic world from the 1790s and into the nineteenth century. In the current turbulent period, when Western governments are once again grappling with how to balance security and civil liberty against the threat of inflammatory ideas and actions during a period of international political and religious tension, it is timely to re-examine the motives, dilemmas, thinking and actions of governments facing similar problems during the 'Age of Revolutions'. The volume begins with a number of essays exploring the cases tried in England and Scotland in 1793-94 and examining those political trials from fresh angles (including their implications for legal developments, their representation in the press, and the emotion and the performances they generated in court). Subsequent sections widen the scope of the collection both chronologically (through the period up to the Reform Act of 1832 and extending as far as the end of the nineteenth century) and geographically (to Revolutionary France, republican Ireland, the United States and Canada). These comparative and longue durée approaches will stimulate new debate on the political trials of Georgian Britain and of the north Atlantic world more generally as well as a reassessment of their significance. This book deliberately incorporates essays by scholars working within and across a number of different disciplines including Law, Literary Studies and Political Science.-- Provided by publisher.
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Davis, Michael T., 1969- editor.
Macleod, Emma Vincent, editor.
Pentland, Gordon, editor.
Macleod, Emma Vincent, editor.
Pentland, Gordon, editor.
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Palgrave histories of policing, punishment and justice.
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