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Hoax: The Popish Plot that Never Was

Autor Victor Stater
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 26 iul 2022

În cadrul programelor de studiu dedicate istoriei moderne timpurii și evoluției instituțiilor democratice britanice, Hoax ocupă un loc central prin rigoarea cu care deconstruiește unul dintre cele mai influente episoade de manipulare politică. Observăm cum Victor Stater reușește să transforme cronica „Complotului Papist” din 1678 — o invenție a unor personaje precum Titus Oates — într-o analiză profundă a mecanismelor puterii. Remarcăm claritatea cu care autorul urmărește transformarea unor minciuni flagrante în politici de stat, proces ce a dus nu doar la moartea unor oameni nevinovați, ci și la o polarizare ideologică fără precedent.

Această lucrare acoperă aceeași arie tematică precum volumul clasic The Popish Plot de John Pollock, însă abordarea lui Stater este una mult mai integrată în contextul politic modern, punând accent pe modul în care criza a forțat nașterea primelor partide politice engleze. Dacă alte lucrări, precum 'The Horrid Popish Plot' de Peter Hinds, se concentrează pe circulația informației în straturile populare, Stater preferă o perspectivă care îmbină rigoarea academică cu o narativitate ce amintește de investigațiile contemporane, oferind o viziune de ansamblu asupra curții lui Carol al II-lea.

Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Hoax completează opera anterioară a autorului, A Political History of Tudor and Stuart England. În timp ce lucrarea precedentă oferea o panoramă vastă a tranziției de la medieval la modern, volumul de față acționează ca o lentilă focalizată pe un punct critic de inflexiune. Stilul este precis, evitând speculațiile inutile, dar reușind să mențină un ritm alert prin detalii despre procese, trădări și strategii parlamentare. Este o resursă esențială pentru înțelegerea modului în care paranoia colectivă poate deveni un instrument de guvernare.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780300123807
ISBN-10: 0300123809
Pagini: 336
Ilustrații: 16 b-w illus.
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cercetătorilor și studenților la istorie care doresc să înțeleagă rădăcinile sistemului politic britanic. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă lucidă asupra modului în care „fake news” și teoriile conspirației au modelat instituțiile moderne încă de acum trei secole. Este o lecție fascinantă despre fragilitatea justiției în fața paranoiei sectare, oferind instrumente critice pentru analiza discursului politic contemporan.


Despre autor

Victor Stater este un istoric reputat, specializat în perioada Tudorilor și a Stuarților, cunoscut pentru capacitatea sa de a sintetiza perioade complexe de tranziție politică. Opera sa include lucrarea de referință A Political History of Tudor and Stuart England, unde a explorat transformarea Angliei într-un stat imperial. În prezentul volum publicat la Yale University Press, Stater își aplică expertiza asupra secolului al XVII-lea pentru a demonstra cum crizele politice aparent izolate au efecte pe termen lung asupra structurii guvernamentale britanice.


Descriere scurtă

The extraordinary story of the Popish Plot and how it shaped the political and religious future of Britain
 
“Stater tells a complex and convoluted story with absolute clarity. . . . As a work of historical scholarship, Hoax is terrific.”—Robert G. Ingram, National Review
 
“[Stater’s] accounts have the compulsively fascinating quality of a true-crime podcast.”—Jeffrey Collins, Wall Street Journal
 
In 1678, a handful of perjurers claimed that the Catholics of England planned to assassinate the king. Men like the “Reverend Doctor” Titus Oates and “Captain” William Bedloe parlayed their fantastical tales of Irish ruffians, medical poisoners, and silver bullets into public adulation and government pensions. Their political allies used the fabricated plot as a tool to undermine the ministry of Thomas Lord Danby and replace him themselves. The result was the trial and execution of over a dozen innocent Catholics, and the imprisonment of many more, some of whom died in custody.
 
Victor Stater examines the Popish Plot in full, arguing that it had a profound and lasting significance on British politics. He shows how Charles II emerged from the crisis with credit, moderating the tempers of the time, and how, as the catalyst for the later attempt to deny James II his throne through parliamentary action, it led to the birth of two-party politics in England.

Recenzii

“Offers a timely warning. When readers look back at this world of cruel, arbitrary justice, paranoia and sectarianism, they should be wary of indulging in the ‘condescension of posterity.’ . . . As Stater points out, believing in conspiracy theories is a part of human nature. Times change, human nature does not.”—Paul Lay, The Times

“Oddly, perhaps, historians often present the Popish Plot with a kind of textbookish colorlessness. Mr. Stater’s achievement is to restore the plot’s fascination and to capture—after more than three centuries—the dread and incredulity felt by those who experienced it. . . . His accounts have the compulsively fascinating quality of a true-crime podcast.”—Jeffrey Collins, Wall Street Journal

“A fascinating, entertaining study in its own right—thoroughly researched, full of colourful sketches of the leading characters, brilliant at recreating the feverish atmosphere of the times and wise in its assessment of the long-term consequences for English politics.”—Tony Barber, Financial Times

“Victor Stater’s rollicking, imperious prose is both well-told history and a thought-provoking study of a world similar to our own.”—Madoc Cairns, Times Literary Supplement

“Stater tells a complex and convoluted story with absolute clarity. His historical judgments are sure and grounded on decades of digging about in the archives. And his pen sketches of the various characters are often mordantly funny. As a work of historical scholarship, Hoax is terrific. It also reminds us, if reminders are needed, to be wary of charlatans and zealots bearing news of secret plots.”—Robert G. Ingram, National Review

“Retelling in lively detail the events surrounding the fabricated revelations of a Catholic conspiracy to assassinate King Charles II in the late 1670s, the book deals with ‘plots,’ ‘revelations,’ and ‘witnesses,’ with an attentive eye to issues of (mis)representation and a knowing nod to modern parallels.”—Christopher P. Gillett, Journal of Jesuit Studies

“Stater writes with verve; his prose often sparkles. . . . This book leaves the reader not with gratitude for the first political parties, but rather with disgust and dismay at how low Restoration courtiers and politicians stooped in order to gain and maintain power. Stater has written a story for our times.”—Melinda S. Zook, Journal of Modern History

“A brilliantly detailed and thoroughly examined account. . . . Stater excels at linking micro-historical scenes into the larger macro-historical trends and issues.”—Nathan Martin, Seventeenth-Century News

“An extraordinary story of vicious lies manipulated by desperate politicians into a frenzy of disinformation. Stater tells it with verve and a magnificently tight narrative control. It led to more than thirty innocent Catholics being tortured to death. Few conspiracy stories have been quite so lethal.”—John Morrill FBA, Selwyn College, Cambridge

“A fascinating study. As well as describing the progress of the ‘plot,’ and the investigation into it, blow by blow, Stater gives us a many-sided picture of seventeenth-century London. For anyone with an interest in seventeenth-century history—this book is unmissable. Let Hoax be a lesson to us!”—Liza Picard, author of Elizabeth’s London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London


Notă biografică

Victor Stater is Jane De Grummond Professor at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. He is the author of Duke Hamilton Is Dead!, Noble Government, and A Political History of Tudor and Stuart England.