Routledge The Spirit of the Union: Popular Politics in Scotland (The Enlightenment World)

Product Description 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. Review '[a] superb piece of historical scholarship' Journal of Scottish Historical Studies 'excellent, informative, and well-argued' Journal of British Studies