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Crowd Actions in Britain and France from the Middle Ages to the
Modern World explores the lively and often violent world of the
crowd, examining some of the key flashpoints in the history of
popular action. From the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 to the Paris
riots in 2005 and 2006, this volume reveals what happens when
people gather together in protest.
In 1988, Iain McCalman's seminal work, The Radical Underworld,
unravelled the complex and clandestine revolutionary networks of
democrats that operated in London between 1790 and the beginnings
of Chartism, to reveal an urban underworld of prophets, infidels,
pornographers and rogue preachers where powerful satirical and
subversive subcultures were developed. This present volume reflects
and builds upon the diversity of McCalman's discoveries, to present
fresh insights into the culture and operation of popular politics
in the 'age of reform'. It is a coherent and integrated treatment
of the subject that offers a window into this 'unrespectable'
underworld and questions, whether it was a blackguard subculture or
a more complex and rich counter-culture with powerful literary,
legal and political implications.This book brings together an
international team of experienced scholars to explore the concepts
and subjects pioneered by McCalman. The volume presents a focused
and coherent review of popular politics, from the meeting rooms of
a reform society and the theatre stage, to the forum of the
courtroom and the depths of prison.
This six volume set reproduces the complete writings of the London
Corresponding Society (LCS) as well as other contemporary
literature and parliamentary debates, and reports relating to the
Society. The LCS was at the forefront of the call for political
reform in the late 18th century.
This six volume set reproduces the complete writings of the London
Corresponding Society (LCS) as well as other contemporary
literature and parliamentary debates, and reports relating to the
Society. The LCS was at the forefront of the call for political
reform in the late 18th century.
This six volume set reproduces the complete writings of the London
Corresponding Society (LCS) as well as other contemporary
literature and parliamentary debates, and reports relating to the
Society. The LCS was at the forefront of the call for political
reform in the late 18th century.
This six volume set reproduces the complete writings of the London
Corresponding Society (LCS) as well as other contemporary
literature and parliamentary debates, and reports relating to the
Society. The LCS was at the forefront of the call for political
reform in the late 18th century.
This six volume set reproduces the complete writings of the London
Corresponding Society (LCS) as well as other contemporary
literature and parliamentary debates, and reports relating to the
Society. The LCS was at the forefront of the call for political
reform in the late 18th century.
This six volume set reproduces the complete writings of the London
Corresponding Society (LCS) as well as other contemporary
literature and parliamentary debates, and reports relating to the
Society. The LCS was at the forefront of the call for political
reform in the late 18th century.
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 duree
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.
Few scholars can claim to have shaped the historical study of the
long eighteenth century more profoundly than Professor H. T.
Dickinson, who, until his retirement in 2006, held the Sir Richard
Lodge Chair of British History at the University of Edinburgh. This
volume, based on contributions from Professor Dickinson's students,
friends and colleagues from around the world, offers a range of
perspectives on eighteenth-century Britain and provides a tribute
to a remarkable scholarly career. Professor Dickinson's work and
career provides the ideal lens through which to take a detailed
snapshot of current research in a number of areas. The volume
includes contributions from scholars working in intellectual
history, political and parliamentary history, ecclesiastical and
naval history; discussions of major themes such as Jacobitism, the
French Revolution, popular radicalism and conservatism; and essays
on prominent individuals in English and Scottish history, including
Edmund Burke, Thomas Muir, Thomas Paine and Thomas Spence. The
result is a uniquely rich and detailed collection with an
impressive breadth of coverage.
In the summer of 1936, Ezra Pound agreed to take on the role of
European Correspondent for a newly launched travel journal entitled
Globe: The International Magazine. Ezra Pound and 'Globe' Magazine:
The Complete Correspondence collects for the first time Pound's
writings for the journal and his extensive correspondence with one
of its editors, James Taylor Dunn, and the leading writers who
Pound himself attempted to recruit for the magazine. Numbering
almost forty letters and twenty published and unpublished articles,
these writings represent a darkly significant time in Pound's
thought as his infatuation with the rise of fascism took root.
Annotated throughout and supported by substantial explorations of
the historical and cultural contexts of the writings, the book also
includes a substantial bibliography of related writings and a
biographical glossary of the major figures discussed in the
correspondence and writing. Together, these texts represent an
important resource for anyone interested in an important phase of
20th-Century literary modernism.
In the summer of 1936, Ezra Pound agreed to take on the role of
European Correspondent for a newly launched travel journal entitled
Globe: The International Magazine. Ezra Pound and 'Globe' Magazine:
The Complete Correspondence collects for the first time Pound's
writings for the journal and his extensive correspondence with one
of its editors, James Taylor Dunn, and the leading writers who
Pound himself attempted to recruit for the magazine. Numbering
almost forty letters and twenty published and unpublished articles,
these writings represent a darkly significant time in Pound's
thought as his infatuation with the rise of fascism took root.
Annotated throughout and supported by substantial explorations of
the historical and cultural contexts of the writings, the book also
includes a substantial bibliography of related writings and a
biographical glossary of the major figures discussed in the
correspondence and writing. Together, these texts represent an
important resource for anyone interested in an important phase of
20th-Century literary modernism.
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