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Author Pentland, Gordon

Title The Spirit of the Union : Popular Politics in Scotland
Published London : Pickering & Chatto Publishers, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (225 pages)
Series The Enlightenment World
Enlightenment world.
Contents Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The Forging of Post-War Politics; 2 Loyalism and Whiggism in Scotland; 3 Scotland and the Mass Platform; 4 The General Rising of 1820; Conclusion; Epilogue: The Legacies of 1820; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Summary Pentland's study has 3 aims: to place the uprising in a wider context by exploring the modes of extra-parliamentary politics between 1815-20 as well as the situation outside Scotland; (ii) to provide the first full account of the rising itself; and (iii) to examine the legacies of both the politics of 1815-20 and the Radical War
Notes Print version record
Subject Radicalism -- Scotland -- History -- 19th century
Politics and government
Radicalism
SUBJECT Scotland -- Politics and government -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85118867
Scotland -- History -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85118855
Subject Scotland
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781851960620
1851960627
1283019558
9781283019552