Radical Underworld: Prophets, Revolutionaries, and Pornographers in London, 1795-1840

by Iain McCalman

This highly acclaimed study draws on information from spy reports and contemporary literature to look at English popular radicalism during the period between the anti-Jacobin government "Terror" of the 1790s and the beginnings of Chartism. The book traces for the first time the history of the underground revolutionary-republican grouping founded by the agrarian reformer, Thomas Spence. Challenging conventional distinctions between "high" and "low"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198122861
• ISBN13: 9780198122869
• Release Date: September 1993
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 8.5"