Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
Purchase Benefits
What is included with this book?
List of illustrations | p. vii |
Notes on contributors | p. ix |
Acknowledgements | p. xii |
List of abbreviations | p. xiii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
The Political Moment of 1780 | p. 19 |
The Gordon riots and the politics of war | p. 21 |
The 1780 Protestant petitions and the culture of petitioning | p. 46 |
æThe Fall of Romish Babylon Anticipated': plebeian Dissenters and anti-popery in the Gordon riots | p. 69 |
Imperial disruptions: city, nation and empire in the Gordon riots | p. 93 |
Representing the Unrepresentable | p. 115 |
'A metropolis in flames and a nation in ruins': the Gordon riots as sublime spectacle | p. 117 |
æThe worse than Negro barbarity of the populace': Ignatius Sancho witnesses the Gordon riots | p. 144 |
Thomas Holcroft and the Gordon riots: Romantic revisionings | p. 162 |
The Aftermath: Politics, Social Order and Cultural Memory | p. 183 |
Re-negotiating the bloody code: the Gordon riots and the transformation of popular attitudes to the criminal justice system | p. 185 |
'For the safety of the city': the geography and social politics of public execution after the Gordon riots | p. 204 |
'Mad misrule': the Gordon riots and conservative memory | p. 226 |
Afterword | p. 243 |
George Gordon: a biographical reassessment | p. 245 |
Select bibliography | p. 265 |
Index | p. 269 |
Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.
The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.