politics of regicide in England, 1760-1850
Subtitle: troublesome subjects
By: Steve Poole.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Manchester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Monarchy -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Monarchy -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: monarchy, contractualism and history; title: The Crown and the secular magic of petition; title: Monarchy and the policing of insanity; title: The madness of Margaret Nicholson; title: Treason compassed: popular mobilisation and physicality in the 1790s; title: Lunacy and politics at fin de siècle, 1800-3; title: The potatoes speak for themselves: regicide, radicalism and George IV, 1811-30; title: Collins in context: William IV, affability and the reform crisis, 1830-37; title: Monarchy goes private: Peel's Protection Act and the retreat from approachability, 1837-50.