Table of Contents:
  • 1. Authorized secrecy : the figure of Freemasonry, Carlyle's clothes philosophy and an alternative to democracy
  • 2. Combining the two nations : trade unions as secret societies, 1837-45
  • 3. Popish plots : Catholic emancipation, tractarian reserve, and "papal aggression"
  • 4. "Some deep, designing men" : the making of the Indian mutiny
  • 5. Italian union : red republicanism, The woman in white and Lothair.