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Author : Samuel Romilly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of the Life of Sir Samuel Romilly written by Samuel Romilly and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anne M. Stott
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1526736446
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book The Lost Queen written by Anne M. Stott and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2020-03-30 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the tragically short life of the only daughter of Britain’s King George IV who won the heart of a nation. As the only child of the Prince Regent and Caroline of Brunswick, Princess Charlotte of Wales (1796-1817) was the heiress presumptive to the throne. Her parents’ marriage had already broken up by the time she was born. She had a difficult childhood and a turbulent adolescence, but she was popular with the public, who looked to her to restore the good name of the monarchy. When she broke off her engagement to a Dutch prince, her father put her under virtual imprisonment, and she endured a period of profound unhappiness. But she held out for the freedom to choose her husband, and when she married Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg, she finally achieved contentment. Her happiness was cruelly cut short when she died in childbirth at the age of twenty-one, only eighteen months later. A shocked nation went into mourning for its “people’s princess,” the queen who never was. “This perspicacious study of Charlotte’s short life is superb. Anne Stott is an accomplished and highly readable biographer whose earlier subjects have included William Wilberforce and Hannah More. She wears her research lightly—which is not to say that the book is anything less than scholastic (quite the opposite). Highly recommended.” —Naomi Clifford, author of The Murder of Mary Ashford
Author : Eva Beatrice Dykes
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Negro in English Romantic Thought; Or, A Study of Sympathy for the Oppressed written by Eva Beatrice Dykes and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sasha Handley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317315251
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Visions of an Unseen World written by Sasha Handley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the production, circulation and consumption of English ghost stories during the Age of Reason. This work examines a variety of mediums: ballads and chapbooks, newspapers, sermons, medical treatises and scientific journals, novels and plays. It relates the telling of ghost stories to changes associated with the Enlightenment.
Author : Samuel Romilly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108064221
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of the Life of Sir Samuel Romilly written by Samuel Romilly and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1840, this three-volume collection illuminates the politics and principles of legal reformer Sir Samuel Romilly (1757-1818).
Author : J. E. Cookson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521239288
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (392 download)
Download or read book The Friends of Peace written by J. E. Cookson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1982-01-21 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the war-opposition in England during what has usually been presented as the great patriotic struggle against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France.
Author : Rory Muir
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300244312
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune written by Rory Muir and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of Jane Austen's England told through the career paths of younger sons--men of good family but small fortune In Regency England the eldest son usually inherited almost everything while his younger brothers, left with little inheritance, had to make a crucial decision: what should they do to make an independent living? Rory Muir weaves together the stories of many obscure and well-known young men, shedding light on an overlooked aspect of Regency society. This is the first scholarly yet accessible exploration of the lifestyle and prospects of these younger sons.
Author : Leslie Stephen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of National Biography written by Leslie Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bart Schultz
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739110874
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Utilitarianism and Empire written by Bart Schultz and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classical utilitarian legacy of Jeremy Bentham, J. S. Mill, James Mill, and Henry Sidgwick has often been charged with both theoretical and practical complicity in the growth of British imperialism and the emerging racialist discourse of the nineteenth century. But there has been little scholarly work devoted to bringing together the conflicting interpretive perspectives on this legacy and its complex evolution with respect to orientalism and imperialism. This volume, with contributions by leading scholars in the field, represents the first attempt to survey the full range of current scholarly controversy on how the classical utilitarians conceived of 'race' and the part it played in their ethical and political programs, particularly with respect to such issues as slavery and the governance of India. The book both advances our understanding of the history of utilitarianism and imperialism and promotes the scholarly debate, clarifying the major points at issue between those sympathetic to the utilitarian legacy and those critical of it.
Author : Anne Brunon-Ernst
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317174755
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Beyond Foucault written by Anne Brunon-Ernst and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his hugely influential book Discipline and Punish, Foucault used the example of Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon prison as a means of representing the transition from the early modern monarchy to the late modern capitalist state. In the former, power is visibly exerted, for instance by the destruction of the body of the criminal, while in the latter power becomes invisible and focuses on the mind of the subject, in order to identify, marginalize, and 'treat' those who are regarded as incapable of participating in, or unwilling to submit to, the disciplines of production. The Panopticon links the worlds of Bentham and Foucault scholars yet they are often at cross-purposes; with Bentham scholars lamenting the ways in which Foucault is perceived to have misunderstood panopticon, and Foucauldians apparently unaware of the complexities of Bentham's thought. This book combines an appreciation of Bentham's broader project with an engagement of Foucault's insights on economic government to go beyond the received reading of panopticism as a dark disciplinary technology of power. Scholars here offer new ways of understanding the Panopticon projects through a wide variety of topics including Bentham's plural Panopticons and their elaboration of schemes of 'panoptic Utopia', the 'inverted Panopticon', 'panoptic governance', 'political panopticism' and 'legal panopticism'. French studies on the Panopticon are groundbreaking and this book brings this research to an English-speaking audience for the first time. It is essential reading, not only for those studying Bentham and Foucault, but also those with an interest in intellectual history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and those studying contemporary surveillance and society.
Author : Carolyn Strange
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774841508
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book Qualities of Mercy written by Carolyn Strange and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Qualities of Mercy deals with the history of mercy, the remittance of punishments in the criminal law. The writers probe the discretionary use of power and inquire how it has been exercised to spare convicted criminals from the full might of the law. Drawing on the history of England, Canada, and Australia in periods when both capital and corporal punishment were still practised, they show that contrary to common assumptions the past was not a time of unmitigated terror and they ask what inspired restraint in punishment. They conclude that the ability to decide who lived and died -- through the exercise or denial of mercy -- reinforced the power structure.
Author : Andrew Fede
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820351121
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Homicide Justified written by Andrew Fede and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comparative study looks at the laws concerning the murder of slaves by their masters and at how these laws were implemented. Andrew T. Fede cites a wide range of cases--across time, place, and circumstance--to illuminate legal, judicial, and other complexities surrounding this regrettably common occurrence. These laws had evolved to limit in different ways the masters' rights to severely punish and even kill their slaves while protecting valuable enslaved people, understood as "property," from wanton destruction by hirers, overseers, and poor whites who did not own slaves. To explore the conflicts of masters' rights with state and colonial laws, Fede shows how slave homicide law evolved and was enforced not only in the United States but also in ancient Roman, Visigoth, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and British jurisdictions. His comparative approach reveals how legal reforms regarding slave homicide in antebellum times, like past reforms dictated by emperors and kings, were the products of changing perceptions of the interests of the public; of the individual slave owners; and of the slave owners' families, heirs, and creditors. Although some slave murders came to be regarded as capital offenses, the laws con-sistently reinforced the second-class status of slaves. This influence, Fede concludes, flowed over into the application of law to free African Americans and would even make itself felt in the legal attitudes that underlay the Jim Crow era.
Author : Samuel Austin Allibone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century written by Samuel Austin Allibone and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 1188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel Austin Allibone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased written by Samuel Austin Allibone and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 1190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rory Muir
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300214049
Total Pages : 761 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Wellington: Waterloo and the Fortunes of Peace 1814–1852 written by Rory Muir and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 761 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The preeminent Wellington biographer presents a fascinating reassessment of the Duke’s most famous victory and his political career after Waterloo. The Duke of Wellington’s momentous victory over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo was the culminating point of a brilliant military career. Yet Wellington’s achievements were far from over. He commanded the allied army of occupation in France to the end of 1818, returned home to a seat in Lord Liverpool’s cabinet, and became prime minister in 1828. He later served as a senior minister in Robert Peel’s government and remained Commander-in-Chief of the Army for a decade until his death in 1852. In this richly detailed work, the second and concluding volume of Rory Muir’s definitive biography, the author offers a substantial reassessment of Wellington’s significance as a politician and a nuanced view of the private man behind the legendary hero. Muir presents new insights into Wellington’s determination to keep peace at home and abroad, achieved by maintaining good relations with the Continental powers, resisting radical agitation, and granting political equality to the Catholics in Ireland. Countering one-dimensional image of Wellington as a national hero, Muir paints a nuanced portrait of a man whose austere public demeanor belied his entertaining, gossipy, generous, and unpretentious private self.
Author : Thom. Fowell Buxton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of Sir Thom. Fowell Buxton written by Thom. Fowell Buxton and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Harrison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521520133
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Crowds and History written by Mark Harrison and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-20 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh look at the crowd in relation to the urbanising process and the civic culture it inspired.
