Lisa Steffen Defining a British State: Treason and National Identity.

Lisa Steffen Defining a British State: Treason and National Identity, 1608-1820 (Studies in Modem History.) recent York: Palgrave. 2001. Pp x 245 $7200 ISBN 0-333-92034-1

Treason was individual of the most serious political actions in Britain during the medieval and early modem periods because it attacked the highest sovereign authority in the land, that of the monarch. It is strange, then, that until lately the subject has not attracted earnestly attention from historians. Indeed, little has been written in succession the law of treason, at least after the Glorious Revolution. Lisa Steffen

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