| Loyal Radical Lancashire 1798-1815 Ohm C Contributor(s): Navickas, Katrina (Author) |
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ISBN: 0199559678 ISBN-13: 9780199559671 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $123.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Great Britain - General - Political Science - History | Modern - 18th Century |
| Dewey: 320.9 |
| Series: Oxford Historical Monographs |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.4" W x 8.5" (1.05 lbs) 286 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Chronological Period - 1800-1850 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Loyalism and Radicalism in Lancashire, 1798-1815 is a lively and detailed account of popular politics in Lancashire during the later years of the French Revolution and during the Napoleonic wars. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, such as letters, diaries, and broadside ballads, it offers fresh insights into the complicated dynamics between radicalism, loyalism, and patriotism, and emphasizes Lancashire's distinctive political culture and its place at the heart of the industrial revolution. This region witnessed some of the most intense, disruptive, and violent popular politics in this period and beyond. Highly active and vocal groups emerged--extreme republicans, more moderate radicals, Luddites, early trade unionists, and also strong networks of Church-and-King loyalists and Orange lodges. Katrina Navickas explains how this heady mix created a politically charged region where both local and national affairs played their part. She follows the inner workings of popular political activity in response to both internal and external threats, including loyalist processions and civic events, volunteer corps formed as defense against invasion, food riots, strikes by trade unions, and both secret and public meetings on the key issues of peace and parliamentary reform. Navickas argues for a distinct sense of regional identity that shaped not only local politics but also patriotism. Lancastrians felt British in the face of the French, but it was a particularly Lancastrian type of Britishness. |
