Political Trials in an Age of Revolutions Britain and the North Atlantic, 1793-1848 /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Davis, Michael T. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Macleod, Emma (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Pentland, Gordon (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: Palgrave Histories of Policing, Punishment and Justice
• Θέματα: Corrections.; Punishment.; Police.; Crime-Sociological aspects.; Great Britain-History.; World politics.; Imperialism.; Prison and Punishment.; Policing.; Crime and Society.; History of Britain and Ireland.; Political History.; Imperialism and Colonialism.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Frontmatter: Preface; Geoffrey Robertson, QC
• Introduction; Michael T. Davis, Emma Macleod and Gordon Pentland
• Part I. The 1790s
• 1. The English and Scottish State Trials of the 1790s Compared; Emma Macleod
• 2. 'Subverting the Settled Order of Things': The Crime of Sedition in Scotland, 1793-1849; Lindsay Farmer
• 3. The Newspaper Press, Sedition and the High Court of Justiciary in Late Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh; David G. Barrie and Joanne McEwan
• 4. The English and Scottish State Trials of the 1790s Compared; Emma Macleod
• 5. Sermons of Sedition: The Trials of William Winterbotham; James Epstein
• 6. The Noise and Emotions of Political Trials in Britain during the 1790s; Michael T. Davis
• 7. Literary Justice: Representing the London Treason Trials of 1794; Nancy E. Johnson
• 8. Political trials and the suppression of popular radicalism in England, 1799-1820; Katrina Navickas
• 9. State Trials, Whig Lawyers and the Press in Early Nineteenth-Century Scotland; Gordon Pentland
• 10. 'Some Examples Should Be Made': Prosecuting Reform Bill Rioters in 1831-32; Steve Poole
• Part III. The North Atlantic World
• 11. Political Trials, Terror and Civil Society: the Case of the Revolutionary Tribunal in Paris, 1793-94; Mike Rapport
• 12. Hero or Villain? The Treason Trial of Aaron Burr (1807); Jack Fruchtman
• 13. Irish Political Trials, 1793-1848: Associationalism, Emotion and Memory; Martyn Powell
• 14. State Trials in Post-Revolution British North America; Barry Wright.