Memoirs of John Horne Tooke

Volume 2: Interspersed with Original Documents
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-108-06161-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 536 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 745 g

Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - British & Irish History, 17th & 18th Centuries

Equally revered and reviled, the radical John Horne Tooke (1736–1812) enjoyed a well-deserved reputation as a political firebrand. Having attended Eton and St John's College, Cambridge, he explored careers in the church and law before finally gaining recognition as a vehement advocate of political reform. This acclaimed two-volume biography by Alexander Stephens (1757–1821) was published in 1813, incorporating personal correspondence and presenting its subject as 'a firm friend to the laws and liberties of his native country'. Volume 2 covers the period 1777–1812 and leads the reader through Horne's two periods of imprisonment, two parliamentary election campaigns, the rise of the Society for Constitutional Information and the publication of his final pamphlet, A Warning to the Electors of Westminster (1807). This volume concludes with an account of his final years of ill health, his death and his political legacy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stephens, Alexander

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. 1777 to 1786; 2. 1786 to 1787; 3. 1787 to 1794; 4. 1794 to 1801; 5. 1801 to 1803; 6. 1803 to 1804; 7. 1804 to 1809; 8. 1810 to 1812; 9. 1812.