1st Edition

The Spirit of the Union Popular Politics in Scotland

By Gordon Pentland Copyright 2011
    224 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