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

"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 zero...

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Main Author: Weil, Rachel
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2014.
Series:Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.
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