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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 Gardner
Argues, 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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Volume

39

Issue number

1

Page range

162-182

Publication title

Studies in Scottish Literature

ISSN

0039-3770

Publisher

University of South Carolina

ISBN

9781492330097

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  • Published version

Language

  • eng

Legacy posted date

2013-09-16

Legacy creation date

2017-12-21

Legacy Faculty/School/Department

ARCHIVED Faculty of Arts, Law & Social Sciences (until September 2018)

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