Author: Carnell, Rachel
Title: Backlash: Libel, Impeachment, and Populism in the Reign of Queen Anne
Description: Charlottesville and London, University of Virginia Press, 2020. Hardcover. Octavo. Hardcover. Yellow cloth boards with an illustrated jacket. 282 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm. "Rachel Carnell tells the story of a backlash against decades of increasingly progressive government in Britain after the Glorious Revolution of 1688. The book relates the arrest of a Tory political satirist and Whigs' impeachment of a High Church clergyman and the resulting backlash, with mobs surging the streets. Queen Anne dissolved Parliament, and the new elections brought in a Tory majority who swiftly passed reactionary legislation"--. As new.

Keywords: History ; 18th Century ; ;


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