The Gordon Riots

Herausgeber: Haywood, Ian; Seed, John

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Produktbeschreibung

A new and controversial perspective on the causes, personalities and consequences of the most devastating urban riots in British history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 571g
• ISBN-13: 9780521195423
• ISBN-10: 052119542X
• Artikelnr.: 34376684

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Ian Haywood and John Seed; Part I. The Political Moment of
1780: 1. The Gordon riots and the politics of war Nicholas Rogers; 2. The
1780 Protestant petitions and the culture of petitioning Mark Knights; 3.
'The fall of Romish Babylon anticipated': plebeian Dissenters and
anti-popery in the Gordon riots John Seed; 4. Imperial disruptions: city,
nation, and empire in the Gordon riots Dana Rabin; Part II. Representing
the Unrepresentable: 5. 'A metropolis in flames and a nation in ruins': the
Gordon riots as sublime spectacle Ian Haywood; 6. 'The worse than Negro
barbarity of the populace': Ignatius Sancho witnesses the Gordon riots
Brycchan Carey; 7. Thomas Holcroft and the Gordon riots: Romantic
revisionings Miriam L. Wallace; Part III. The Aftermath: Politics, Social
Order and Cultural Memory: 8. Re-negotiating the bloody code: the Gordon
riots and the transformation of popular attitudes to the criminal justice
system Tim Hitchcock; 9. 'For the safety of the city': the geography and
social politics of public execution after the Gordon riots Matthew White;
10. 'Mad misrule': the Gordon riots and conservative memory Susan Matthews;
Afterword; 11. George Gordon: a biographical reassessment Dominic Green;
Select bibliography; Index.