Alison Morgan

Ballads and songs of Peterloo (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is an edited anthology comprising more than seventy poems and songs written in immediate response to Peterloo in 1819. Mainly anonymous, these ballads appears either as broadsides or in the radical press and are collected together for the first time.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526132482
• Artikelnr.: 55007135

Autorenporträt

Alison Morgan holds a degree in agriculture from the University of Reading and a postgraduate degree in global development. She has worked with arable and livestock farmers, in agricultural research, farm advisory work, and farming, food and environment policy roles. She has also worked overseas with farmers and pastoral herders in Central Asia and the Middle East.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1 'Rise
Britons, rise now from your slumber': the revolutionary call to arms 2 'Ye
English warriors': radical nationalism and the true patriot 3 'Base brat of
reform': the victimisation of mother and child 4 'Your memorials shall
survive the grave': elegy and remembrance 5 'Those true sons of Mars':
chivalry, cowardice and the power of satire 6 'Freeman stand, or freeman
die': liberty and slavery Appendix Select bibliography Index of poems Index