A plague of informers : conspiracy and political trust in William III's England /
" 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 zer...
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| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013] |
| Series: | Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.
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| 300 | |a xiii, 344 pages ; |c 25 cm. | ||
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| 505 | 0 | |a Debates on National Security -- A Trusted Government? -- "A Tool with so Devilish an Edge": Government Officials and Political Informers in the 1690s -- Identity, Honor, and Gender in the Narratives of Informers -- Credit and Credibility in the Worlds of Richard Kingston -- Loyalty and Credibility in the Lancashire "Sham Plot" -- Representation, Politics, and Law in the Assassination Plot. | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
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