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Revolutionary Britannia? - Reflections on the Threat of Revolution in Britain, 1789-1848 (Hardcover)
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Revolutionary Britannia? - Reflections on the Threat of Revolution in Britain, 1789-1848 (Hardcover)
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For two generations following the overthrow of the absolutist
monarchy in France in 1789, European history was punctuated by
political upheavals until in 1848 the continent was swept by
revolutionary fervour. Britain alone of the major western powers
seemed exempt. Why was this? The governing class at the time
attributed it to divine providence and the soundness of a
constitution already perfected by revolution in 1688. For a
century, historians echoed this Victorian complacency about the
superiority of the British and dismissed revolutionary outbursts as
mere economic protest or the work of trouble-makers. Extensive
evidence for revolutionary plotting was dismissed as the product of
the fevered imaginations of government spies. This book builds on
scholarship, which has challenged this view, and asks the reader to
suspend hindsight and take seriously the threat of revolution, from
the English Jacobins of the 1790s and the Luddites of 1812 to the
Chartists of 1839-48. If the threat was real, the assertion that
"Britain was different" ceases to be adequate, so the final section
probes more deeply, drawing on recent research to show how the
revolutionaries were defeated by the government's propaganda
against revolutionary sentiments and the strength of popular
conservatism.
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