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1 online resource (210 pages)
ISBN:
9781526144997
Inhalt:
If the Cato Street Conspiracy had been successful, Britain would have been proclaimed a republic by tradesmen of English, Scots, Irish and black Jamaican backgrounds. This book explains the conspiracy, and why you have never heard of it.
Inhalt:
Front Matter -- Contents -- List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction 'We only have to be lucky once': Cato Street, insurrection and the revolutionary tradition -- When did they know? The cabinet, informers and Cato Street -- Joining up the dots: contingency, hindsight and the British insurrectionary tradition -- The men they couldn't hang: 'sensible' radicals and the Cato Street Conspiracy -- Cato Street in international perspective -- Cato Street and the Caribbean -- Cato Street and the Spencean politics of transnational insurrection -- State witnesses and spies in Irish political trials, 1794-1803 -- The shadow of the Pikeman: Irish craftsmen and British radicalism, 1803-20 -- The fate of the transported Cato Street conspirators -- Scripted by whom? 1820 and theatres of rebellion -- Afterword -- Index.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781526144980
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781526144980
Sprache:
Englisch
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