Radical Whigs and Conspiratorial Politics in Late Stuart England [Hardcover]

Melinda S. Zook (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0271018569 | ISBN-13: 978-0271018560 | Publication Date: March 1999

In this book Melinda Zook examines the political culture of England during the 1670s and 1680s. She singles out an underground network of radical conspirators and propagandists who have been virtually ignored by historians. These men, and some women, were working to ensure a Protestant succession of the monarchy. In the course of their struggles with the government, their ideas became ever more radical and their tactics all the more violent. Their ideas reached an increasingly sympathetic and receptive audience, preparing the way for the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Scholars of political history have traditionally associated the creation of liberal political thought with the elite genesis of John Locke and the triumphant, bloodless, glorious Revolution of 1688. Radical Whigs and Conspiratorial Politics in Late Stuart England brings to life the true creators and disseminators of a liberal ideology based on contract and consent. Zook offers convincing biographical sketches of five popular polemicists whose ideas and actions influenced the goals of the Rye House conspirators in 1683, the Monmouth rebels in 1685, and Revolutionaries in 1688-89. She argues that liberalism was not forged in the philosopher's study in the peaceful country manor, but in noisy London taverns and coffeehouses, street corners and rented rooms, to be defended on the scaffold and battlefield.

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Melinda S. Zook is Assistant Professor of History at Purdue University. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Hardcover: 234 pages
Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr (March 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0271018569
ISBN-13: 978-0271018560
Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1 inches
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state trials, capital cases, wonderful predictions, conspiratorial politics, royalist backlash, ancient constitutionalism, polemical career, popish successor, radical network, protestant plot, petition movement, warranto proceedings, revolution culture

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Rye House, Late Stuart England, Lord Russell, Julian the Apostate, Robert Ferguson, Glorious Revolution, Making Martyrs, Hunt's Postscript, Reverend Samuel Johnson, Mapping the Radical Whigs, Thomas Hunt, Creating Revolution, Exclusion Bill, Green Ribbon Club, Monmouth's Declaration, Roger L'Estrange, Cambridge University Press, Resisting the Future, John Locke, Refiguring the Past, Stephen Colledge, Monmouth's Rebellion, Algernon Sidney, Exclusion Crisis, John Hampden

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