The politics of regicide in England, 1760-1850 : troublesome subjects /

The politics of regicide in England, 1760-1850 : troublesome subjects /

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Author / Creator:Poole, Steve, 1957- author.
Edition:First digital paperback edition.
Imprint:Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, [2018]
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Subject:
Monarchy -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Monarchy -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Monarchy -- Great Britain -- Public opinion -- History -- 18th century.
Monarchy -- Great Britain -- Public opinion -- History -- 19th century.
Regicides -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Regicides -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Monarchy.
Monarchy -- Public opinion.
Politics and government.
Regicides.
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 18th century.
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 19th century.
Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Great Britain.
History.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12020585
Related Items:Electronic reproduction (manifestation): Politics of regicide in England, 1760-1850.
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ISBN:9781526130617
1526130610
Notes:Originally published by Manchester University Press 2000. First digital paperback edition published 2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, Oct. 10, 2018).
Print version record.
Other form:Print version: Poole, Steve. Politics of Regicide in England, 1760-1850 : Troublesome Subjects. Manchester : Manchester University Press, ©2018
Table of 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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