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Backlash: Libel, Impeachment, and Populism in the Reign of Queen Anne

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Backlash: Libel, Impeachment, and Populism in the Reign of Queen Anne - Carnell, Rachel
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"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"--

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Backlash: Libel, Impeachment, and Populism in the Reign of Queen Anne 2020, University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville

ISBN-13: 9780813944425

Hardcover