Backlash: libel, impeachment, and populism in the reign of Queen Anne

"Rachel Carnell tells the story of a backlash against decades of increasingly progressive government in Britain after the Glorious Revolution of 1688. The book relates the arrest of a Tory political satirist and Whigs' impeachment of a High Church clergyman and the resulting backlash, with...

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1. Verfasser: Carnell, Rachel (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Charlottesville ; London University of Virginia Press [2020]
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Zusammenfassung:"Rachel Carnell tells the story of a backlash against decades of increasingly progressive government in Britain after the Glorious Revolution of 1688. The book relates the arrest of a Tory political satirist and Whigs' impeachment of a High Church clergyman and the resulting backlash, with mobs surging the streets. Queen Anne dissolved Parliament, and the new elections brought in a Tory majority who swiftly passed reactionary legislation"--
Beschreibung:xi, 282 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations 24 cm
ISBN:9780813944425

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