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Author : Paola Bono
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (471 download)
Download or read book Radicals and Reformers in the Late Eighteenth-century Scotland written by Paola Bono and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paola Bono
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Radicals and Reformers in Late Eighteenth-century Scotland written by Paola Bono and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 1989 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The political awakening of Scotland in the last quarter of the 18th century is documented by the growing number of pamphlets and other literature in those years. This number increased dramatically following the diffusion of the ideas of the French Revolution, and the heated debate it inspired. Already the war with the American colonies had led to a more widespread interest in politics, and the issues of sovereignty and of representation were to become more and more crucial as the need for a reform - at local as well as at national level - made itself felt. The annotated checklist constitutes a documentary source for further studies in this field, while the comments appended to the items offer information and suggestions for possible directions of research.
Author : Paola Bono
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (223 download)
Download or read book RADICALS AND REFORMERS IN LATE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY SCOTLAND written by Paola Bono and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Liam McIlvanney
Publisher : John Donald
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Burns the Radical written by Liam McIlvanney and published by John Donald. This book was released on 2002 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of poet Robert Burns's politics uncovers the intellectual context of the poet's political radicalism. Burns is revealed as a sophisticated political poet whose work draws on the democratic, contractarian ideology of Scottish Presbyterianism; the English and Irish Real Whig tradition; and the political theory of the Scottish Enlightenment. Casting new light on the poet's education and his early reading, this book provides detailed new readings of Burns's major poems and offers research on his links with Irish poets and radicals, providing a major reinterpretation of the man who is coming to be recognized as the poet laureate of the radical Enlightenment.
Author : Carl B. Cone
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1412843626
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (128 download)
Download or read book The English Jacobins, reformers in late 18th century England written by Carl B. Cone and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English Jacobins is a full-scale study of the English reformers of the late eighteenth century, called ""Jacobins"" by their enemies who feared a repetition of the radical excesses of revolutionary France. Cone describes the rise of reform organizations during the controversy in Parliament over John Wilkes, who attempted to blow up Parliament in the 1760s, and he charts the progress of these organizations until they were disbanded, temporarily, after the sedition trials of 1794. Analyzing the goals and accomplishments of the reformers, Cone stresses that they worked for constitutional and civil not social or economic changes. The reformers were, in fact, more interested in restoring ""Anglo-Saxon"" liberties and the benefits of the Glorious Revolution of 1688 than in carrying out the ideas of Rousseau or borrowing from the example of the Paris Commune. If there were foreign influences on the English radicals, these were provided by former American colonists who had used committees of correspondence and constituent assemblies to such good effect against the monarchy. Cone considers the fluctuating fortunes of the reformers. At various times the radicals had important allies in Parliament, like Charles James Fox and William Pitt, and included in their number such accomplished figures as Richard Price, the moral philosopher, and Joseph Priestley, the chemist, as well as dissenting ministers. The ""Jacobins"" achieved their greatest publicity when Tom Paine replied to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France with his own Rights of Man and in the pamphlet war that followed. This intriguing work connects The American Revolution with the British Reform Movement, while documenting an important period in British history.
Author : Michael Durey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Transatlantic Radicals and the Early American Republic written by Michael Durey and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the transatlantic world of the late eighteenth century, easterly winds blew radical thought to America. Thomas Paine had already arrived on these shores in 1774 and made his mark as a radical pamphleteer during the Revolution. In his wake followed more than 200 other radical exiles—English Dissenters, Whigs, and Painites; Scottish "lads o'parts"; and Irish patriots—who became influential newspaper writers and editors and helped change the nature of political discourse in a young nation. Michael Durey has written the first full-scale analysis of these radicals, evaluating the long-term influence their ideas have had on American political thought. Transatlantic Radicals uncovers the roots of their radicalism in the Old World and tells the story of how these men came to be exiled, how they emigrated, and how they participated in the politics of their adopted country. Nearly all of these radicals looked to Paine as their spiritual leader and to Thomas Jefferson as their political champion. They held egalitarian, anti-federalist values and promoted an extreme form of participatory democracy that found a niche in the radical wing of Jefferson's Republican Party. Their divided views on slavery, however, reveal that democratic republicanism was unable to cope with the realities of that institution. As political activists during the 1790s, they proved crucial to Jefferson's 1800 presidential victory; then, after his views moderated and their influence waned, many repatriated, others drifted into anonymity, and a few managed to find success in the New World. Although many of these men are known to us through other histories, their influence as a group has never before been so closely examined. Durey persuasively demonstrates that the intellectual ferment in Britain did indeed have tremendous influence on American politics. His account of that influence sheds considerable light on transatlantic political history and differences in religious, political, and economic freedoms. Skillfully balancing a large cast of characters, Transatlantic Radicals depicts the diversity of their experiences and shows how crucial these reluctant émigrés were to shaping our republic in its formative years.
Author : Michael Fry
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
ISBN 13 : 178885408X
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (888 download)
Download or read book The Dundas Despotism written by Michael Fry and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2004-07-05 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive and up-to-date biography of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville (1742-1811) and his son Robert, 2nd Viscount Melville (1771-1851). Aided by other members of their family, they ruled Scotland from the 1770s to the 1830s in a period of government later dubbed 'the Dundas Despotism'. Using a mass of new primary and secondary material culled from England, Scotland, Ireland and the United States, Michael Fry here challenges the traditional view that theirs was a corrupt and authoritarian regime. He shows that both father and son sought to achieve good government within the accepted political conventions of the age, and that many of the principles they set out to apply were owed directly to Scottish Enlightenment ideas. The Dundases were also of fundamental importance in drawing Scotland more fully into the United Kingdom and enabling the Union of 1707 to work. This is a sparkling reassessment of a crucial period of Scottish, British and imperial history. The Dundas Despotism was previously published by Edinburgh University Press.
Author : Barton Swaim
Publisher : Associated University Presse
ISBN 13 : 9780838757161
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (571 download)
Download or read book Scottish Men of Letters and the New Public Sphere, 1802-1834 written by Barton Swaim and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each of the writings this book deals with were influenced by and capitalized on certain aspects of Scottish culture in the late-18th and early 19th centuries and those cultural influences combined to forge a rhetorical approach that practically guaranteed the Scottish men of letters a dominant place in the public sphere. This book covers the Edinburgh Review in and as the public sphere 1802-08; Christopher North and the review essay as conversational exhibition; Lockhart's modified amateurism and the shame of authorship; and the Presbyterian sermon, Carlyle's homiletic essays, and Scottish periodical writing.
Author : Stephen W Brown
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748650954
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)
Download or read book Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, Volume 2 written by Stephen W Brown and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first thorough study of the book trade during the age of Fergusson and Burns.
Author : Stephen W. Brown
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748628967
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)
Download or read book Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, Volume 2: Enlightenment and Expansion 1707-1800 written by Stephen W. Brown and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies the book trade during the age of Fergusson and BurnsOver 40 leading scholars come together in this volume to scrutinise the development and impact of printing, binding, bookselling, libraries, textbooks, distribution and international trade, copyright, piracy, literacy, music publication, women readers, children's books and cookery books.The 18th century saw Scotland become a global leader in publishing, both through landmark challenges to the early copyright legislation and through the development of intricate overseas markets that extended across Europe, Asia and the Americas. Scots in Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Dublin and Philadelphia amassed fortunes while bringing to international markets classics in medicine and economics by Scottish authors, as well as such enduring works of reference as the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Entrepreneurship and a vigorous sense of nationalism brought Scotland from financial destitution at the time of the 1707 Union to extraordinary wealth by the 1790s. Publishing was one of the country's elite new industries.
Author : Stuart McHardy
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1910324302
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Scotland's Future History written by Stuart McHardy and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2015-04-06 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: McHardy presents a new approach to history, changing our mindset to look at Scotland as the centre of our story. Rather than starting from the Mediterranean, from the classical/Christian bias we have been taught for centuries. Rather than being a remote dark land populated by barbaric tribes. Perhaps we were the centre of a well-organised civilisation around the Orkneys and islands and coasts and rivers, with our own priorities, community-centred, locally self-sufficient, well-versed in lore of all kinds. Who were/are we? The great centres of ritual in Orkney, Lewis and Kilmartin suggest an indigenous population much more sophisticated in terms of social ritual and communal rule than we have been led to believe. In whose interest is it that we accept the classical/Christian version of history relayed to us by monks? These are some of the questions McHardy addresses in a passionate and accessible style. Read and become more Alba-centric in terms of what we see as important to research, study and understand.
Author : Stephen Cowley
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1625649975
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (256 download)
Download or read book Rational Piety and Social Reform in Glasgow written by Stephen Cowley and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Mylne (1757-1839) taught moral philosophy and political economy in Glasgow from 1797 to the mid-1830s. Rational Piety and Social Reform in Glasgow offers readers Mylne's biography, a summary of his lectures on moral philosophy and political economy, several interpretative essays, and a collation of his introductory lecture. Mylne's moral philosophy lectures cover the intellectual and active powers of man and offer an account of his duties to God, neighbor, and self. He diverges from the "moral sense" and "common sense" traditions associated with Francis Hutcheson and Thomas Reid in Glasgow. He reinstates reason as the guiding principle of conscience and argues for utility as the predominant criterion of morality. Mylne was also active among the Whig "friends of Mr. Fox" and in the Glasgow Reform Association, for his theory of the sovereignty of reason drove his view of political reform and the concept of value in his lectures on political economy. In a criticism of Adam Smith, Mylne interprets use-value as prior to exchange value, founding it in lawful desires identifiable by a merchant community. Mylne's political opinions and activity among local political reformers and literary societies exemplify the Glasgow Whig tradition.
Author : H. T. Dickinson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470998873
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (79 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Britain written by H. T. Dickinson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative Companion introduces readers to the developments that lead to Britain becoming a great world power, the leading European imperial state, and, at the same time, the most economically and socially advanced, politically liberal and religiously tolerant nation in Europe. Covers political, social, cultural, economic and religious history. Written by an international team of experts. Examines Britain's position from the perspective of other European nations.
Author : Jonathan Yeager
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 019977255X
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Enlightened Evangelicalism written by Jonathan Yeager and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title tells how John Erskine was the leading evangelical in the Church of Scotland in the latter half of the 18th century. It explores how, educated in an enlightened setting at Edinburgh University, he learned to appreciate the epistemology of John Locke and other empiricists.
Author : John Kirk
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317320654
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Cultures of Radicalism in Britain and Ireland written by John Kirk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays addresses the role of literature in radical politics. Topics covered include the legacy of Robert Burns, broadside literature in Munster and radical literature in Wales.
Author : Bob Harris
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317315316
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book The Scottish People and the French Revolution written by Bob Harris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a study of the political culture of Scotland in the 1790s. This book compares the emergence of 'the people' as a political force, with popular political movements in England and Ireland. It analyses Scottish responses to the French Revolution across the political spectrum; explaining Loyalist as well as Radical opinions and organisations.
Author : Nigel Leask
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199572615
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Robert Burns and Pastoral written by Nigel Leask and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book restores the long marginalised Scottish poet Robert Burns to his rightful place as a major poet of the 18th century and Romantic period. It discusses his education as a farmer during the revolutionary period of 'improvement' in 18th-century Scotland, decision to write 'Scots pastoral' poetry, and influence on Wordsworth and Coleridge.
