The Cato Street Conspiracy

Plotting, counter-intelligence and the revolutionary tradition in Britain and Ireland
Herausgeber: Conboy, Martin; Mcelligott, Jason

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Produktbeschreibung

If the Cato Street Conspiracy had been successful, Britain would have been proclaimed a republic by tradesmen of English, Scots, Irish and black Jamaican backgrounds. This book explains the conspiracy, and why you have never heard of it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 493g
• ISBN-13: 9781526144980
• ISBN-10: 1526144980
• Artikelnr.: 57477466

Autorenporträt

Jason McElligott is the Director of Marsh's Library, Dublin, Ireland Martin Conboy is Professor of Journalism History at the University of Sheffield

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 'We only have to be lucky once': Cato Street, insurrection and
the revolutionary tradition Jason McElligott and Martin Conboy 1. When did
they know? The cabinet, informers and Cato Street Richard A. Gaunt 2.
Joining up the dots: contingency, hindsight and the British insurrectionary
tradition John Stevenson 3. The men they couldn't hang: 'sensible' radicals
and the Cato Street Conspiracy Jason McElligott 4. Cato Street in
international perspective Malcolm Chase 5. Cato Street and the Caribbean
Ryan Hanley 6. Cato Street and the Spencean politics of transnational
insurrection Ajmal Waqif 7. State witnesses and spies in Irish political
trials, 1794-1803 Martyn J. Powell 8. The shadow of the Pikeman: Irish
craftsmen and British radicalism, 1803-20 Timothy Murtagh 9. The fate of
the transported Cato Street conspirators Kieran Hannon 10. Scripted by
whom? 1820 and theatres of rebellion John Gardner Afterword Caoimhe Nic
Dháibhéid and Colin W. Reid