Political Trials in an Age of Revolutions: Britain and the North Atlantic, 1793-1848

Frontmatter: Preface; Geoffrey Robertson, QC.- Introduction; Michael T. Davis, Emma Macleod and Gordon Pentland.- Part I. The 1790s.- 1. The English and Scottish State Trials of the 1790s Compared; Emma Macleod.- 2. 'Subverting the Settled Order of Things': The Crime of Sedition in Scotland, 1793-1849; Lindsay Farmer.- 3. The Newspaper Press, Sedition and the High Court of Justiciary in Late Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh; David G. Barrie and Joanne McEwan.- 4. The English and Scottish State Trials of the 1790s Compared; Emma Macleod.- 5. Sermons of Sedition: The Trials of William Winterbotham; James Epstein.- 6. The Noise and Emotions of Political Trials in Britain during the 1790s; Michael T. Davis.- 7. Literary Justice: Representing the London Treason Trials of 1794; Nancy E. Johnson.- 8. Political trials and the suppression of popular radicalism in England, 1799-1820; Katrina Navickas.- 9. State Trials, Whig Lawyers and the Press in Early Nineteenth-Century Scotland; Gordon Pentland.- 10. 'Some Examples Should Be Made': Prosecuting Reform Bill Rioters in 1831-32; Steve Poole.- Part III. The North Atlantic World.- 11. Political Trials, Terror and Civil Society: the Case of the Revolutionary Tribunal in Paris, 1793-94; Mike Rapport.- 12. Hero or Villain? The Treason Trial of Aaron Burr (1807); Jack Fruchtman.- 13. Irish Political Trials, 1793-1848: Associationalism, Emotion and Memory; Martyn Powell.- 14. State Trials in Post-Revolution British North America; Barry Wright.