1st Edition

The Spirit of the Union Popular Politics in Scotland

By Gordon Pentland Copyright 2011
224 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

Pentland's study has 3 aims: to place the uprising in a wider context by exploring the modes of extra-parliamentary politics between 1815 and1820 as well as the situation outside Scotland; (ii) to provide the first full account of the rising itself; and (iii) to examine the legacies of both the politics of 1815-20 and the Radical War.

Introduction; Chapter 1 The Forging of Post-War Politics; Chapter 2 Loyalism and Whiggism in Scotland; Chapter 3 Scotland and the Mass Platform; Chapter 4 The ‘General Rising’ of 1820; Chapter 5 Conclusion; Chapter 6 Epilogue: The Legacies of 1820;

Biography

Gordon Pentland