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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- H. T. Dickinson: An Appreciation -- Introduction -- Part I. Parliament and Political Cultures -- 1. 'The Press Ought to be Open to All': From the Liberty of Conscience to the Liberty of the Press -- 2. 'Could the Scots Become True British?' The Prelude to the Scottish Peerage Bill, 1706-16 -- 3. Parliament and Church Reform: Off and On the Agenda -- 4. Liberty, Property and the Post-Culloden Acts of Parliament in the Gàidhealtachd -- 5. Political Toasting in the Age of Revolutions: Britain, America and France, 1765-1800 -- Part II. Beyond Liberty and Property -- 6. Edmund Burke, Dissent and Church and State -- 7. 'The Wisest and Most Benefi cial Schemes': William Ogilvie, Radical Political Economy and the Scottish Enlightenment -- 8. Thomas Spence and James Harrington: A Case Study in Influence -- 9. Thomas Spence, Children's Literature and 'Learning . . . Debauched by Ambition' -- Part III. The Long and Wide 1790s -- 10. British Radical Attitudes towards the United States of America in the 1790s: The Case of William Winterbotham -- 11. Was there a Law of Sedition in Scotland? Baron David Hume's Analysis of the Scottish Sedition Trials of 1794 -- 12. The Vilifi cation of Thomas Paine: Constructing a Folk Devil in the 1790s -- 13. Nelson's Circles: Networking in the Navy during the French Wars -- 14. The Posthumous Lives of Thomas Muir -- Appendix: Selected List of H. T. Dickinson's Publications, 1964-2015 -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index