A plague of informers : conspiracy and political trust in William III's England / Rachel Weil.

• 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.

• "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 zeroes in on the early years when the survival of the new regime was in doubt. By encouraging informers, imposing loyalty oaths, suspending habeas corpus, and delaying the long-promised reform of treason trial procedure, the Williamite regime protected itself from enemies and cemented its bonds with supporters, but also put its own credibility at risk"-- 

Ämnesord

Kungar  (sao)

Politiska förhållanden  (sao)

Conspiracies  -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century. (LCSH)

Conspiracies.  (fast)

Enemies.  (fast)

Politics and government.  (fast)

Konspirativ verksamhet  -- historia (sao)

HISTORY  -- Europe -- Great Britain. (bisacsh)

HISTORY  -- Modern -- 17th Century. (bisacsh)

POLITICAL SCIENCE  -- Political Freedom & Security -- Intelligence. (bisacsh)

Kings and rulers  -- Succession. (fast)

Kings and rulers  (LCSH)

Storbritannien  (sao)

Great Britain  -- History -- William and Mary, 1689-1702. (LCSH)

Great Britain  -- Politics and government -- 1689-1702. (LCSH)

Great Britain  -- Kings and rulers -- Succession -- History -- 17th century. (LCSH)

Great Britain.  (fast)

1600-talet  (sao)

1600-1702  (fast)

Genre

History.  (fast)

Personnamn

William III, King of England, 1650-1702 -- Adversaries.

William III, King of England, 1650-1702.

Vilhelm III, kung av England, Skottland och Irland, 1650-1702

Willem III, prins van Oranje en koning van Groot-Brittannië, 1650-1702.

Klassifikation

DA460 (LCC)

941.068 (DDC)

HIS015000 HIS037040 POL036000 (bisacsh)

15.70 (bcl)

Ke (kssb/8 (machine generated))