Verlag: Yale University Press, 2014
ISBN 10: 0300171048 ISBN 13: 9780300171044
Anbieter: Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag, Amsterdam, Niederlande
Zustand: as new. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2013. Hardcover. Dustjacket. 344 pp. English text. Condition : as new. Includes bibliographical references and index.- Stories of plots, sham plots, and the citizen-informers who discovered them are at the center 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. By encouraging informers, imposing loyalty oaths, suspending habeas corpus, and delaying the long-promised reform of treason trial procedure, the Williamite regime protected itself from enemies and cemented its bonds with supporters, but also put its own credibility at risk. Condition : as new copy. ISBN 9780300171044. Keywords : HISTORY,