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A plague of informers : conspiracy and political trust in William III's England
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Stories of plots, sham plots, and the citizen-informers who discovered them are at the centre of Rachel Weil's compelling study of the turbulent decade following the Revolution of 1688. Most studie...
Stories of plots, sham plots, and the citizen-informers who discovered them are at the centre of Rachel Weil's compelling study of the turbulent decade following the Revolution of 1688. Most studies of the Glorious Revolution focus on its causes or long-term effects, but Weil instead zeroes in on the early years when the survival of the new regime was in doubt.
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- Creator
- Rachel Weil
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New Haven : Yale University Press, 2014
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
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- ISBNs
- 9780300199284, 0300199287, 9780300171044
- OCLC
- ocn967255792
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Conventions and on Currency -- Persons and Plots -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Debates on National Security -- Chapter 2: A Trusted Government? -- Chapter 3: "A Tool with so Devilish an Edge": Government Officials and Political Informers in the 1690s -- Chapter 4: Identity, Honor, and Gender in the Narratives of Informers -- Chapter 5: Credit and Credibility in the Worlds of Richard Kingston -- Chapter 6: Loyalty and Credibility in the Lancashire "Sham Plot" -- Chapter 7: Representation, Politics, and Law in the Assassination Plot -- Notes -- Manuscript Collections Consulted -- Index
Subjects
- William III, King of England, 1650-1702 -- Adversaries.
- Great Britain -- History -- William and Mary, 1689-1702.
- Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1689-1702.
- Conspiracies -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.
- Great Britain -- Kings and rulers -- Succession -- History -- 17th century.