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Author : Cyril Matheson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Life of Henry Dundas, First Viscount Melville, 1742-1811 written by Cyril Matheson and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Jacyna
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134959311
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Philosophic Whigs written by Stephen Jacyna and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-03-07 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophic Whigs explores the links between scientific activity and politics in the early nineteenth century. Through a study of the Edinburgh medical school, L.S. Jacyna analyses the developments in medical education in the context of the social and political relationships within the local Whig community. Philosophic Whigs is a fascinating study of the links between science and the society that produces it.
Author : Paul David Nelson
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838636732
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (367 download)
Download or read book Sir Charles Grey, First Earl Grey written by Paul David Nelson and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considering Grey's importance, and the prominence of the family he helped to found, it is surprising that he has been neglected by history. Only a short sketch in the Dictionary of National Biography, and an article by Sir John Fortescue in the Edinburgh Review have ever attempted even perfunctory assessments of his life. As a man and an army officer, Grey represented some of the best qualities of eighteenth-century British civilization. In America, he fought during the War of American Independence and in 1794 in the West Indies against France. Hence, as Nelson shows, his career is important in American History. Given his long service to the British nation in all her wars from 1744 to 1800, it is clear from Nelson's account that Grey is an important character in British history as well. During his lifetime, Grey proved himself a reliable and successful soldier, earning and deserving all his honors: Knight of the Bath in 1782, baron in 1801, viscount and earl in 1806.
Author : John D. O. Fulton
Publisher : Fonthill Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Slavery and the Scottish Enlightenment written by John D. O. Fulton and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2024-06-03 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the evil nature of slavery become enshrined in law in Great Britain? What drove the change in public perception? What were the key victories on the journey to abolition and who were the key players? What is to prevent a similar evil gaining acceptance again today? Just as Britain’s industrial development in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries was built largely on the back of slave labour, so too was the development of new ideas and values, shaped by the moral dilemmas arising from the shameful act of denying people their liberty.The story of the Scottish Enlightenment is entwined with that of slavery and the slave trade. In fifteen stories set between 1720 and 1865 in Britain, Africa, the Caribbean and America, Slavery and the Scottish Enlightenment introduces a diverse cast of characters, both white and black, whose moral viewpoints and active choices between right and wrong helped shape the world in which they lived. As the legacy of slavery continues to infect our lives, we face similar choices today – choices that will determine the ever-evolving values of our society.
Author : Nathaniel Jarrett
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806191376
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book The Lion at Dawn written by Nathaniel Jarrett and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2022-09 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In February 1793, in the wake of the War of American Independence and one year after British prime minister William Pitt the Younger had predicted fifteen years of peace, the National Convention of Revolutionary France declared war on Great Britain and the Netherlands. France thus initiated nearly a quarter century of armed conflict with Britain. During this fraught and still-contested period, historian Nathaniel Jarrett suggests, Pitt and his ministers forged a diplomatic policy and military strategy that envisioned an international system anticipating the Vienna settlement of 1815. Examining Pitt’s foreign policy from 1783 to 1797—the years before and during the War of the First Coalition against Revolutionary France—Jarrett considers a question that has long vexed historians: Did Pitt adhere to the “blue water” school, imagining a globe-trotting navy, or did he favor engagement nearer to shore and on the European Continent? And was this approach grounded in precedent, or was it something new? While acknowledging the complexities within this dichotomy, The Lion at Dawn argues that the prime minister consistently subordinated colonial to continental concerns and pursued a new vision rather than merely honoring past glories. Deliberately, not simply in reaction to the French Revolution, Pitt developed and pursued a grand strategy that sought British security through a novel collective European system—one ultimately realized by his successors in 1815. The Lion at Dawn opens a critical new perspective on the emergence of modern Britain and its empire and on its early effort to create a stable and peaceful international system, an ideal debated to this day.
Author : Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674977556
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)
Download or read book Europe’s India written by Sanjay Subrahmanyam and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-13 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Portuguese explorers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope and arrived in the subcontinent in the late fifteenth century, Europeans had little direct knowledge of India. The maritime passage opened new opportunities for exchange of goods as well as ideas. Traders were joined by ambassadors, missionaries, soldiers, and scholars from Portugal, England, Holland, France, Italy, and Germany, all hoping to learn about India for reasons as varied as their particular nationalities and professions. In the following centuries they produced a body of knowledge about India that significantly shaped European thought. Europe’s India tracks Europeans’ changing ideas of India over the entire early modern period. Sanjay Subrahmanyam brings his expertise and erudition to bear in exploring the connection between European representations of India and the fascination with collecting Indian texts and objects that took root in the sixteenth century. European notions of India’s history, geography, politics, and religion were strongly shaped by the manuscripts, paintings, and artifacts—both precious and prosaic—that found their way into Western hands. Subrahmanyam rejects the opposition between “true” knowledge of India and the self-serving fantasies of European Orientalists. Instead, he shows how knowledge must always be understood in relation to the concrete circumstances of its production. Europe’s India is as much about how the East came to be understood by the West as it is about how India shaped Europe’s ideas concerning art, language, religion, and commerce.
Author : Paul Keen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000749010
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Popular Radical Press in Britain, 1811-1821 Vol 2 written by Paul Keen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The radical weekly newspaper or pamphlet was the leading print organ of popular radical expression during what has been called the "heroic age of popular Radicalism"; the public agitation for parlimentary reform between 1815 and 1820. This work reprints the original runs of the rarest periodicals.
Author : John Shaw
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1349276456
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)
Download or read book The Political History of Eighteenth-Century Scotland written by John Shaw and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1999-07-22 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study looks afresh at the assumption that those in the Scottish parliament who voted for the union of 1707 sold their country. The world of Scottish politics after the union is then explored from the perspective of the people at the top of the ruling elite. It is the world of the squadrone, Argyll, Ilay, Bute and Dundas, where there was little civic virtue. Much is learned by looking at the century as a whole in describing their struggles, their motives and ideas, their place within the politics of Great Britain and the challenges to their complacency.
Author : Charles Robert Leslie Fletcher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Historical Portraits, 1700-1850 written by Charles Robert Leslie Fletcher and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sailendra Nath Sen
Publisher : Popular Prakashan
ISBN 13 : 9788171547890
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (478 download)
Download or read book Anglo-Maratha Relations, 1785-96 written by Sailendra Nath Sen and published by Popular Prakashan. This book was released on 1994 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Albert Goodwin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317189876
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book The Friends of Liberty written by Albert Goodwin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, originally published in 1979, traces the growth of English radicalism from the time of Wilkes to the final suppression of the radical societies in 1799. The metropolitan radical movement is described in the context of the general democratic evolution of the West in the age of the American and French revolutions, by showing how its direction was influenced by events in France, Scotland and Ireland. The book emphasizes the importance of the great regional centres of provincial radicalism and of the evolution of a local, radical press. It also throws light on the impact of Painite radicalism, the origins of Anglo-french hostilities in 1793, the English treason trials of 1794, the protest movement of 1795 and the final phase of Anglo-Irish clandestine republicanism.
Author : Eugene Charlton Black
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674050006
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Association written by Eugene Charlton Black and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1963 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The generations of Britons living through the reign of George III saw basic changes in economic and social structure: industrial revolution, agricultural revolution, demographic revolution. Romanticism displaced classicism. The religious and spiritual life of the nation changed dramatically. The rise of the mass constituency, the extension of political consensus, proved the salient new political fact. Traditional institutions and relationships were not impervious to change, but extraparliarmentary political organizations forced the pace. They reflected the interests of the community far more closely than the traditional, fragmented political factions. National extraparliamentary political organizations attempted, in parliamentary constituencies, to secure the election of members pledged to a specific program. Potential supporters were organized, after a fashion, in parliament. This is the nucleus of modern party organization, platform, and propaganda. Mr. Black examines a number of these associations—their motives, their leaders, their opponents, their means of expression and operation, their accomplishments and failures. Names such as Wilkes, Wyvill, Gordon, Jebb, and Reeves are found in cooperation with and opposition to Rockingham, Pitt, Fox, and North. Organizations such as the Associated Counties; the Protestant Association; the Society for the Commemoration of the Glorious Revolution; and the Association for the Preservation of Liberty and Property against Republicans and Levellers are represented in this narrative of eighteenth-century political history.
Author : Lady Anne Lindsay Barnard
Publisher : Van Riebeeck Society, The
ISBN 13 : 9780958411264
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (112 download)
Download or read book The Cape Diaries of Lady Anne Barnard, 1799-1800 written by Lady Anne Lindsay Barnard and published by Van Riebeeck Society, The. This book was released on 1999 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1680 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Henry Morse Stephens Collections written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Turlough Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0956791735
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (567 download)
Download or read book Policing the Metropolis of Scotland: A History of the Police and Systems of Police in Edinburgh & Edinburghshire, 1770-1833 written by and published by Turlough Publishers. This book was released on with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Howard T. Fry
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136606874
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)
Download or read book Alexander Dalrymple and the Expansion of British Trade written by Howard T. Fry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander Dalrymple was once described as the man who, after Hakluyt, had done most for the spread of Britain’s commerce. In this important new work, Dr. Fry discusses Dalrymple’s extensive contribution to knowledge about New Guinea and his pioneer attempt to establish a free port on Balambangan, and shows that his interest in the possibility of a North-West Passage and his influence in government circles were to be a major factor in bringing about Vancouver’s survey. Dalrymple’s research and theories about the great Southern Continent led to his appointment by the Royal Society as commander of the 1768 expedition, and though the Admiralty countermanded this decision and appointed instead Captain Cook, Dalrymple’s geographical researches were the motivating force behind the initiation of the search for Terra Australis. Dr. Fry throws interesting new light on Dalrymple’s relations with Cook, which, he argues, have been consistently misrepresented. Dalrymple became an expert navigator and surveyor during his years as captain of East India snows, and he became in turn hydrographer of the East India Company and the Admiralty. His work in this field revolutionised chart-making and was a contribution of incalculable value to Britain’s maritime supremacy in the nineteenth century. This classic book was first published in 1970.
Author : Howard T Fry
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113515676X
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)
Download or read book Alexander Dalrymple written by Howard T Fry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1970. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
