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Author:   Brian Cowan (Customer) ,  Scott Sowerby (Customer) ,  Brian Cowan (Customer) ,  Mark Goldie
Publisher:   Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint:   The Boydell Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9781783276264

ISBN 10:   1783276266
Pages:   306
Publication Date:   06 August 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part One: What Were the State Trials? Introduction: The State Trials in Historical Perspective - Brian Cowan and Scott Sowerby 1. State Trials and the Rule of Law under the Later Stuarts and Early Hanoverians - Tim Harris and Stephen Taylor 2. Corruption and Later Stuart State Trials - Mark Knights Part Two: Restoration State Trials 3. 'Blood will have Blood': The Regicide Trials and the Popular Press - Melinda S. Zook 4. The Trial and Execution of Oliver Plunket - John Marshall 5. Sham Plots and False Confessions: The Politics of Edward Fitzharris's Last Words, 1681 - Andrea McKenzie 6. Constructing Conspiracy: Reporting the Rye House Plot Trials - Newton Key Part Three: Revolutionary State Trials 7. Enforcing Uniformity: Public Reactions to the Seven Bishops' Trial - Scott Sowerby 8. Revolutionary Justice and Whig Retribution in 1689 - Mark Goldie 9. Relitigating Revolution: Address, Progress, and Redress in the Long Summer of 1710 - Brian Cowan 10. Politics and Sentiment in the Jacobite State Trials - Paul Monod 11. Defeating Innuendoes: The Trials of Thomas Rosewell (1684) and Daniel Isaac Eaton (1794) - Annabel Patterson Index

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Offers a nuanced and rich insight into an important aspect of seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century English political culture. * RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY *

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BRIAN COWAN is an Associate Professor of History at McGill University. SCOTT SOWERBY is an Associate Professor of History at Northwestern University. BRIAN COWAN is an Associate Professor of History at McGill University. Mark Goldie is Emeritus Professor of Intellectual History in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College. He has edited or authored 12 books and published more than 60 essays on British political, religious, and intellectual history in the period 1650-1800. Two of his books are published by Boydell and Brewer: The Entring Book of Roger Morrice and Roger Morrice and the Puritan Whigs. ANDREA MCKENZIE is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Victoria, Canada SCOTT SOWERBY is an Associate Professor of History at Northwestern University.

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