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Author : CLIVE. BELL
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781033710296
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (12 download)
Download or read book ON BRITISH FREEDOM written by CLIVE. BELL and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clive Bell
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Book Rating : 4.:/5 (847 download)
Download or read book On British Freedom written by Clive Bell and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Walvin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349081914
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)
Download or read book England, Slaves and Freedom, 1776–1838 written by James Walvin and published by Springer. This book was released on 1986-06-18 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Padraic X. Scanlan
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300231520
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Freedom's Debtors written by Padraic X. Scanlan and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the abolition of the British slave trade in Sierra Leone and how the British used its success to justify colonialism in Africa British anti-slavery, widely seen as a great sacrifice of economic and political capital on the altar of humanitarianism, was in fact profitable, militarily useful, and crucial to the expansion of British power in West Africa. After the slave trade was abolished, anti-slavery activists in England profited, colonial officials in Freetown, Sierra Leone, relied on former slaves as soldiers and as cheap labor, and the British armed forces conscripted former slaves to fight in the West Indies and in West Africa. At once scholarly and compelling, this history of the abolition of the British slave trade in Sierra Leone draws on a wealth of archival material. Scanlan’s social and material study offers insight into how the success of British anti-slavery policies were used to justify colonialism in Africa. He reframes a moment considered to be a watershed in British public morality as rather the beginning of morally ambiguous, violent, and exploitative colonial history.
Author : Patrick Joyce
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107328284
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)
Download or read book The State of Freedom written by Patrick Joyce and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the state? The State of Freedom offers an important new take on this classic question by exploring what exactly the state did and how it worked. Patrick Joyce asks us to re-examine the ordinary things of the British state from dusty government files and post offices to well-thumbed primers in ancient Greek and Latin and the classrooms and dormitories of public schools and Oxbridge colleges. This is also a history of the 'who' and the 'where' of the state, of the people who ran the state, the government offices they sat in and the college halls they dined in. Patrick Joyce argues that only by considering these things, people and places can we really understand the nature of the modern state. This is both a pioneering new approach to political history in which social and material factors are centre stage, and a highly original history of modern Britain.
Author : Richard Huzzey
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801465818
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Freedom Burning written by Richard Huzzey and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Britain abolished slavery throughout most of its empire in 1834, Victorians adopted a creed of "anti-slavery" as a vital part of their national identity and sense of moral superiority to other civilizations. The British government used diplomacy, pressure, and violence to suppress the slave trade, while the Royal Navy enforced abolition worldwide and an anxious public debated the true responsibilities of an anti-slavery nation. This crusade was far from altruistic or compassionate, but Richard Huzzey argues that it forged national debates and political culture long after the famous abolitionist campaigns of William Wilberforce and Thomas Clarkson had faded into memory. These anti-slavery passions shaped racist and imperialist prejudices, new forms of coerced labor, and the expansion of colonial possessions. In a sweeping narrative that spans the globe, Freedom Burning explores the intersection of philanthropic, imperial, and economic interests that underlay Britain's anti-slavery zeal- from London to Liberia, the Sudan to South Africa, Canada to the Caribbean, and the British East India Company to the Confederate States of America. Through careful attention to popular culture, official records, and private papers, Huzzey rewrites the history of the British Empire and a century-long effort to end the global trade in human lives.
Author : Cassandra Pybus
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807055182
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Epic Journeys of Freedom written by Cassandra Pybus and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2006-02-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cassandra Pybus adds greatly to the work of [previous] scholars by insisting that slaves stand at the center of their own history . . . Her 'biographies' of flight expose the dangers that escape entailed and the courage it took to risk all for freedom. Only by measuring those dangers can the exhilaration of success be comprehended and the unspeakable misery of failure be appreciated.--Ira Berlin, from the Foreword During the American Revolution, thousands of slaves fled their masters to find freedom with the British. Epic Journeys of Freedom is the astounding story of these runaways and the lives they made on four continents. Having emancipated themselves, with the rhetoric about the inalienable rights of free men ringing in their ears, these men and women struggled tenaciously to make liberty a reality in their own lives. This alternative narrative of freedom fought for and won is uniquely compelling; historian Cassandra Pybus's groundbreaking research has uncovered individual stories of runaways who left America to forge difficult new lives in far-flung corners of the British Empire. Harry, for example, one of George Washington's slaves, escaped from Mount Vernon in 1776, was evacuated to Nova Scotia in 1783, and eventually relocated to Sierra Leone in West Africa with his wife and three children. Ralph Henry, who ran away from the Virginia firebrand Patrick Henry in 1776, took a similar path to precarious freedom in Sierra Leone, while others, such as John Moseley and John Randall, were evacuated with the British forces to England. Stranded in England without skills or patronage during a period of high unemployment, they were among thousands of newly freed poor blacks who struggled just to survive. While some were relocated to Sierra Leone, others, like Moseley and Randall, found themselves transported to the distant penal colony of Botany Bay, in Australia. Epic Journeys of Freedom, written in the best tradition of history from the bottom up, is a fascinating insight into the meaning of liberty; it will change forever the way we think about the American Revolution.
Author : Daniel Hannan
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062231758
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)
Download or read book Inventing Freedom written by Daniel Hannan and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does the world speak English? Why does every country at least pretend to aspire to representative government, personal freedom, and an independent judiciary? In The New Road to Serfdom, British politician Daniel Hannan exhorted Americans not to abandon the principles that have made our country great. Inventing Freedom is a much more ambitious account of the historical origin and spread of those principles, and their role in creating a sphere of economic and political liberty that is as crucial as it is imperiled. According to Hannan, the ideas and institutions we consider essential to maintaining and preserving our freedoms—individual rights, private property, the rule of law, and the institutions of representative government—are not broadly "Western" in the usual sense of the term. Rather they are the legacy of a very specific tradition, one that was born in England and that we Americans, along with other former British colonies, inherited. The first English kingdoms, as they emerged from the Dark Ages, already had unique characteristics that would develop into what we now call constitutional government. By the tenth century, a thousand years before most modern countries, England was a nation-state whose people were already starting to define themselves with reference to inherited common-law rights. The story of liberty is the story of how that model triumphed. How, repressed after the Norman Conquest, it reasserted itself; how it developed during the civil wars of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries into the modern liberal-democratic tradition; how it was enshrined in a series of landmark victories—the Magna Carta, the English Civil War, the Glorious Revolution, the U.S. Constitution—and how it came to defeat every international rival. Yet there was nothing inevitable about it. Anglosphere values could easily have been snuffed out in the 1940s. And they would not be ascendant today if the Cold War had ended differently. Today we see those ideas abandoned and scorned in the places where they once went unchallenged. The current U.S. president, in particular, seems determined to deride and traduce the Anglosphere values that the Founders took for granted. Inventing Freedom explains why the extraordinary idea that the state was the servant, not the ruler, of the individual evolved uniquely in the English-speaking world. It is a chronicle of the success of Anglosphere exceptionalism. And it is offered at a time that may turn out to be the end of the age of political freedom.
Author : Thomas Alfred Jackson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Trials of British Freedom written by Thomas Alfred Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Dunmore Lang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Freedom and Independence for the Golden Lands of Australia written by John Dunmore Lang and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clive Bell
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331594768
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (947 download)
Download or read book On British Freedom (Classic Reprint) written by Clive Bell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from On British Freedom Shakespeare, it is clear that our appetite for personal freedom - I am throughout using the term per sonal freedom in contradistinction to political - was not less keen than that of our neighbours. Erasmus, when he came to this country, was charmed by the prevailing freedom of manners. Wherefore, it seems reasonable to attribute the change to Puritanism. And so profound a change it was, that all those English-speaking communities which since the middle of the seventeenth century have overspread the world - the United States of North America and the British colonies - have taken, as ducks to water, to a peculiar brand of genteel servitude which passes under the name of anglo-saxon civilization. Indeed, the young com munities are more servile than the mother country even for in England there is an ancient tradition still to wage unequal war in defence of human rights and elementary amenities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Thomas Alfred Jackson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Trials of British Freedom written by Thomas Alfred Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mathew Thomson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191665096
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Lost Freedom written by Mathew Thomson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-11-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lost Freedom addresses the widespread feeling that there has been a fundamental change in the social life of children in recent decades: the loss of childhood freedom, and in particular, the loss of freedom to roam beyond the safety of home. Mathew Thomson explores this phenomenon, concentrating on the period from the Second World War until the 1970s, and considering the roles of psychological theory, traffic, safety consciousness, anxiety about sexual danger, and television in the erosion of freedom. Thomson argues that the Second World War has an important place in this story, with war-borne anxieties encouraging an emphasis on the central importance of a landscape of home. War also encouraged the development of specially designed spaces for the cultivation of the child, including the adventure playground, and the virtual landscape of children's television. However, before the 1970s, British children still had much more physical freedom than they do today. Lost Freedom explores why this situation has changed. The volume pays particular attention to the 1970s as a period of transition, and one which saw radical visions of child liberation, but with anxieties about child protection also escalating in response. This is strikingly demonstrated in the story of how the paedophile emerged as a figure of major public concern. Thomson argues that this crisis of concern over child freedom is indicative of some of the broader problems of the social settlements that had been forged out of the Second World War.
Author : Natasha Lightfoot
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822375052
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Troubling Freedom written by Natasha Lightfoot and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1834 Antigua became the only British colony in the Caribbean to move directly from slavery to full emancipation. Immediate freedom, however, did not live up to its promise, as it did not guarantee any level of stability or autonomy, and the implementation of new forms of coercion and control made it, in many ways, indistinguishable from slavery. In Troubling Freedom Natasha Lightfoot tells the story of how Antigua's newly freed black working people struggled to realize freedom in their everyday lives, prior to and in the decades following emancipation. She presents freedpeople's efforts to form an efficient workforce, acquire property, secure housing, worship, and build independent communities in response to elite prescriptions for acceptable behavior and oppression. Despite its continued efforts, Antigua's black population failed to convince whites that its members were worthy of full economic and political inclusion. By highlighting the diverse ways freedpeople defined and created freedom through quotidian acts of survival and occasional uprisings, Lightfoot complicates conceptions of freedom and the general narrative that landlessness was the primary constraint for newly emancipated slaves in the Caribbean.
Author : James Walvin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book England, Slaves, and Freedom, 1776-1838 written by James Walvin and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hannah-Rose Murray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108487513
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Advocates of Freedom written by Hannah-Rose Murray and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A transatlantic study focusing on African American resistance through unexplored oratorical and performative testimony in the British Isles.
Author : North Briton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (134 download)
Download or read book British Freedom, 1914-17 written by North Briton and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
