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Preventing revolution: Cato Street, Bonnymuir, and Cathkin
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posted on 2023-07-26, 13:26 authored by John GardnerArgues, from a range of evidence including popular poetry and woodcuts, that popular risings in 1820 in Scotland, England, and Ireland were produced as a coordinated strategy by central government in the aftermath of Peterloo to instigate (through agents provocateurs) local popular uprisings and then brutally suppress them, with show trials and public executions, in order to deter or forestall larger social unrest or revolution.
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162-182Publication title
Studies in Scottish LiteratureISSN
0039-3770Publisher
University of South CarolinaISBN
9781492330097File version
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