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The Origins of Modern British Radicalism: The Case for the Eighteenth Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

Norbert J. Gossman
Affiliation:
University of Detroit

Abstract

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Copyright © International Labor and Working-Class History, Inc. 1975

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NOTES

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24. Norman Baker, London Liverymen 1760–1784. This book is still in preparation. My statement is based on correspondence with Professor Baker concerning a definition of radicalism in this period.

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