書目名稱 | Political Trials in an Age of Revolutions |
副標題 | Britain and the Nort |
編輯 | Michael T. Davis,Emma Macleod,Gordon Pentland |
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概述 | Examines the motives, dilemmas, thinking and actions of western governments during the ‘Age of Revolutions’.Providea insight into the government‘s modern day challenge of managing security, civil libe |
叢書名稱 | Palgrave Histories of Policing, Punishment and Justice |
圖書封面 |  |
描述 | .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 1790s and into the nineteenth century. In the current turbulent period, when Western governments are once again grappling with how to balance security and civil liberty against the threat of inflammatory ideas and actions during a period of international political and religious tension, it is timely to re-examine the motives, dilemmas, thinking and actions of governments facing similar problems during the ‘Age of Revolutions’...The volume begins with a number of essays exploring the cases tried in England and Scotland in 1793-94 and examining those political trials from fresh angles (including their implications for legal developments, their representation in the press, and the emotionand the performances they generated in court). Subsequent sections widen the scope of the collection both chronologically (through the period up to the Reform Act of 1832 and extending as far as the end of the nine |
出版日期 | Book 2019 |
關鍵詞 | state violence; colonialism; post-colonialism; ideologies; media; eighteenth century; emotions; radicals; pr |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98959-4 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-98959-4Series ISSN 2946-6075 Series E-ISSN 2946-6083 |
issn_series | 2946-6075 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerl |