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Plague of Informers: Conspiracy and Political Trust in William III's England

Plague of Informers: Conspiracy and Political Trust in William III's England

Weil, Rachel

Hardcover

Series: Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History (Hardcover)

General World HistoryBritish HistoryInternational Relations

ISBN10: 0300171048
ISBN13: 9780300171044
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: Jan 7 2014
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
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.

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