In this book Melinda Zook examines the political culture of
England during the 1670s and 1680s. She singles out an underground
network of radical conspirators and propagandists who have been
virtually ignored by historians. These men, and some women, were
working to ensure a Protestant succession of the monarchy. In the
course of their struggles with the government, their ideas became
ever more radical and their tactics all the more violent. Their
ideas reached an increasingly sympathetic and receptive audience,
preparing the way for the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
Scholars of political history have traditionally associated the
creation of liberal political thought with the elite genesis of
John Locke and the triumphant, bloodless, glorious Revolution of
1688. Radical Whigs and Conspiratorial Politics in Late Stuart
England brings to life the true creators and disseminators of a
liberal ideology based on contract and consent. Zook offers
convincing biographical sketches of five popular polemicists whose
ideas and actions influenced the goals of the Rye House
conspirators in 1683, the Monmouth rebels in 1685, and
Revolutionaries in 1688-89. She argues that liberalism was not
forged in the philosopher's study in the peaceful country manor,
but in noisy London taverns and coffeehouses, street corners and
rented rooms, to be defended on the scaffold and battlefield.
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