Radicalism and Revolution in Britain 1775-1848

HAeLIO OSVALDO ALVES Professor of British Studies, University of Minho, Portugal GREGORY CLAES Professor of the History of Political Thought, Royal Holloway College, University of London PAUL CROOK Personal Chair in History, University of Queensland H. T. DICKINSON Richard Lodge Professor of History, University of Edinburgh MICHAEL DUREY Associate Professor of History, Murdoch University in Australia IAN DYCK Associate Professor of History, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia CLIVE EMSLEY Professor of History at the Open University in the United Kingdom JACK FRUCHTMAN, JR. Professor of Political Science, Maryland's Towson University in America KYLE GRIMES specialist in British Romanticism in the Department of English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham IAIN McCALMAN Director of the Humanities Research Centre and Deputy Director of the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research at the Australian National University JON MEE Margaret Candfield Fellow in English Literature, University College, Oxford and Lecturer in the Faculty of English, Oxford University MICHAEL SCRIVENER teacher in the English Department of Wayne State University in Detroit BERNADETTE TURNER former PhD student of Malcolm Thomis

The spectre of revolution and the nature of radicalism in Britain from the late eighteenth century through to the age of the Chartists has for some time engaged the interest of scholars and been the topic of much debate.The spectre of revolution and the nature of radicalism in Britain from the late eighteenth century through to the age of the Chartists has for some time engaged the interest of scholars and been the topic of much debate. This book honours one of the subject's most renowned and respected historians, Professor Malcolm I. Thomis. In a collection distinguished by its formidable range of contributors, a series of stimulating essays explores and re-examines the threats and ideas of revolution and the byzantine networks and character of British radical culture in the turbulent and intriguing years between 1775 and 1848.