Radicalism and Revolution in Britain, 1775-1848

by Thomis, Malcolm I.; Davis, Michael T.

• ISBN13: 9780333743096
• ISBN10: 0333743091
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-06-01
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Author Biography

Michael T. Davis was an undergraduare and postgraduate student whose research was supervised at the University of Queensland by Malcolm 1. Thomis. Since completing his PhD in 1995 he has been an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow in History at the University of Queensland.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
Notes on the Contributors	viii
Introduction: `To Grow Gently Older and Wiser'-Personal Reflections on Malcolm Thomis	xi
Michael T. Davis
`The Friends of America': British Sympathy with the American Revolution	1	(29)
H. T. Dickinson
Two Doubting Thomases: the British Progressive Enlightenment and the French Revolution	30	(11)
Jack Fruchtman, Jr.
The Political Showman at Home: Reflections on Popular Radicalism and Print Culture in the 1790s	41	(15)
Jon Mee
The Pop-Gun Plot, 1794	56	(13)
Clive Emsley
John Thelwall's Political Ambivalence: Reform and Revolution	69	(15)
Michael Scrivener
Wondering about Wonders: Paine, ConstaCncio and The Age of Reason, 1794--97	84	(12)
Helio Osvaldo Alves
The United Irishmen and the Politics of Banishment, 1798--1807	96	(14)
Michael Durey
`Good for the Public Example': Daniel Isaac Eaton Prosecution, Punishment and Recognition, 1793--1812	110	(23)
Michael T. Davis
A Loyal Englishman?: John Lloyd and Aspects of Oath-taking in 1812	133	(10)
Bernadette Turner
Spreading the Radical Word: the Circulation of William Hone's 1817 Liturgical Parodies	143	(14)
Kyle Grimes
Political Economy and Popular Education: Thomas Hodgskin and the London Mechanics' Institute, 1823--8	157	(19)
Gregory Claeys
`Rural War' and the Missing Revolution in Early Nineteenth-century England	176	(15)
Ian Dyck
Whiggery and America: Accommodating the Radical Threat	191	(16)
Paul Crook
Controlling the Riots: Dickens, Barnaby Rudge and Romantic Revolution	207	(21)
Iain McCalman
Bibliography	228	(2)
Malcolm I. Thomis
Tabula Gratulatoria	230	(3)
Index	233