Death or Liberty: Rebels and radicals transported to Australia 1788 - 1868Now a major documentary film starring Billy Bragg
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... parliaments, equal electoral representation between cities and country and the reduction in the tax burden. Rather than humbly petitioning parliament or the sovereign as was customary, these new societies sought to build a movement for ...
... parliament, and attendees styled themselves 'citizens' and 'delegates' in enthusiastic imitation of the Jacobin revolutionary buzz words. However, just as the overturning of the Ancien Régime kindled the hopes of British liberals, it ...
... parliament . Yet after insisting on his moderation , the idealistic reformer could not resist a defiant display of the firebrand radicalism that so alarmed conservatives . His crime , he asserted , was ' having dared to be ... a ...
... parliamentary reform and the idea that liberty was man's birthright.28 As well as penning pamphlets and speeches on these themes , the silver- tongued Margarot spoke before the French National Convention , and was a mover and shaker at ...
... parliament agreed . Outraged at the verdicts , influential Whig leader Charles James Fox rose in the House of Commons to criticise what he saw as a dangerous miscarriage of justice , declaring that ' so striking and disgusting are the ...
Contents
The Rebels of 1798 in Ireland and Australia | |
British Rebels of Field and Factory | |
Canadian Revolutionaries in Exile | |
Transported Martyrs and the Making of a Nation | |
Traces of Liberty | |
Bibliography | |
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Death or Liberty: Rebels and radicals transported to Australia 1788 - 1868 Tony Moore Limited preview - 2010 |
Death Or Liberty: Rebels and Radicals Transported to Australia 1788-1868 Tony Moore No preview available - 2010 |