Political Trials in an Age of Revolutions

Chapter 1 Introduction: Political Trials in an Age of Revolutions: Britain and the North Atlantic, 1793–1848

Chapter 2 “Subverting the Settled Order of Things”: The Crime of Sedition in Scotland, 1793–1849

Chapter 3 The Newspaper Press, Sedition and the High Court of Justiciary in Late Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh

Chapter 4 The English and Scottish State Trials of the 1790s Compared

Chapter 6 The Noise and Emotions of Political Trials in Britain During the 1790s

Chapter 7 Literary Justice: Representing the London Treason Trials of 1794

Chapter 8 Political Trials and the Suppression of Popular Radicalism in England, 1799–1820

Chapter 9 State Trials, Whig Lawyers and the Press in Early Nineteenth-Century Scotland

Chapter 10 “Some Examples Should Be Made”: Prosecuting Reform Bill Rioters in 1831–32

Chapter 11 Political Trials, Terror and Civil Society: The Case of the Revolutionary Tribunal in Paris, 1793–94

Chapter 12 Hero or Villain? The Treason Trial of Aaron Burr (1807)

Chapter 13 Irish Political Trials, 1793–1848: Associationalism, Emotion and Memory

Chapter 14 State Trials in Post-revolution British North America