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Radicalism, Repression, and Reform in the “Age of Improvement”: Some Recent Studies - Francis Place, 1771–1854: The Life of a Remarkable Radical. By Dudley Miles. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988. Pp. xi + 303. - Radical Underworld: Prophets, Revolutionaries, and Pornographers in London, 1795–1840. By Iain McCalman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xvi + 338. - John Fielden and the Politics of Popular Culture. By Stewart Angas Weaver. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. Pp. ix + 320. - Death, Dissection, and the Destitute. By Ruth Richardson. London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1988. Pp. xxvii + 426. - Criminal and Victim: Crime and Society in Early Nineteenth-Century England. By George Rudé. New York: Clarendon Press, 1985. Pp. 146. - Police and Protest in England and Ireland, 1780–1850. By Stanley H. Palmer. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xxiv + 824.

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Francis Place, 1771–1854: The Life of a Remarkable Radical. By Dudley Miles. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988. Pp. xi + 303.

Radical Underworld: Prophets, Revolutionaries, and Pornographers in London, 1795–1840. By Iain McCalman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xvi + 338.

John Fielden and the Politics of Popular Culture. By Stewart Angas Weaver. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. Pp. ix + 320.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2014

Anthony Brundage*
Affiliation:
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

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References

1 Quoted in Brundage, Anthony, England's “Prussian Minister”: Edwin Chadwick and the Politics of Government Growth, 1832–1854 (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1988), p. 41Google Scholar.

2 For numerous examples of continuing communal support of poachers in the nineteenth century, see Hopkins, Harry, The Long Affray: The Poaching Wars, 1760–1914 (London: Seeker & Warburg, 1985)Google Scholar.