Unrespectable Radicals? Popular Politics in the Age of Reform

Contents......Page 6
Notes on Contributors......Page 8
Foreword......Page 10
Preface......Page 12
Introduction: History as Innovation: The Work of Iain McCalman......Page 14
1 Unrespectable and Reluctant Radical: Benjamin Franklin as a Revolutionary......Page 18
2 The Mob Club? The London Corresponding Society and the Politics of Civility in the 1790s......Page 34
3 The Magician No Conjuror: Robert Merry and the Political Alchemy of the 1790s......Page 54
4 The Theatre of Crim. Con.: Thomas Erskine, Adultery and Radical Politics in the 1790s......Page 70
5 Loyalty in an Age of Conspiracy: The Oath-Filled Civil War in Ireland 1795–1799......Page 84
6 Horrid Sympathy......Page 104
7 Class, Gender and British Elections, 1794–1818......Page 120
8 The Military Committee and the United Irishmen, 1798–1803......Page 138
9 The Radical Underworld Goes Colonial: P.F. McCallum’s Travels in Trinidad......Page 160
10 Islam on the Romantic Period Stage: Hyder Ali, Tippoo Saib and Beyond the Captivity Narrative......Page 180
11 The ‘She-Champion of Impiety’: A Case Study of Female Radicalism......Page 198
12 Betrayal and Exile: A Forgotten Chartist Experience......Page 214
D......Page 232
H......Page 233
M......Page 234
S......Page 235
W......Page 236