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Total Pages : 726 pages
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Download or read book Cobbett's Parliamentary History of England written by and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Harriman-Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110883549X
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Criticism, Performance and the Passions in the Eighteenth Century written by James Harriman-Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recovers eighteenth-century appreciation of transition as a critical tool for analysing the expression and reception of emotion in theatre.
Author : Great Britain. Parliament
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Cobbett's Parliamentary History of England: 1771-1774 written by Great Britain. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Cobbett
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Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Cobbett's Parliamentary History of England written by William Cobbett and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Great Britain. Parliament
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Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book The Parliamentary History of England from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803 written by Great Britain. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ben P Robertson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317316509
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Elizabeth Inchbald's Reputation written by Ben P Robertson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an examination of her complete works and public response to them, Robertson gauges the extent of Inchbald's reputation as the dignified Mrs Inchbald, as well as providing a clear sense of what it meant to be a female Romantic writer.
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Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)
Download or read book The Parliamentary History of England from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803 written by and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes information from the Norman conquest through the 1st session of the 2d Parliament.
Author : Audrey T. Carpenter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0826431488
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)
Download or read book John Theophilus Desaguliers written by Audrey T. Carpenter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive biography of a major, but neglected, figure of his age. John Theophilus Desaguliers made his mark on the eighteenth century in several diverse ways. He was an assistant to Sir Isaac Newton and later elucidated the difficult concepts of Newtonian physics in private lectures. He was a member of the Royal Society, and was presented with the Society's highest honour, the Copley Medal, no less than three times. He was a pioneering engineer: the water supply of Edinburgh, the ventilation of the Houses of Parliament and the first Westminster Bridge all owed him a debt. In a different sphere, Desaguliers became the third Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of the Freemasons which was founded in 1717. He is remembered worldwide for his seminal influence during those early days of Freemasonry. He also wrote poetry and had an influential circle of patrons, including George I and Frederick, Prince of Wales (whom he initiated as a Mason at a specially convened lodge at Kew). This biography, based on original research, describes a charismatic character who was a major figure of his age.
Author : William Cobbett
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 732 pages
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Download or read book “The” Parliamentary History of England from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803 written by William Cobbett and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Drew D. Gray
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100004792X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Prosecuting Homicide in Eighteenth-Century Law and Practice written by Drew D. Gray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-19 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume uses four case studies, all with strong London connections, to analyze homicide law and the pardoning process in eighteenth-century England. Each reveals evidence of how attempts were made to negotiate a path through the justice system to avoid conviction, and so avoid a sentence of hanging. This approach allows a deep examination of the workings of the justice system using social and cultural history methodologies. The cases explore wider areas of social and cultural history in the period, such as the role of policing agents, attitudes towards sexuality and prostitution, press reporting, and popular conceptions of "honorable" behavior. They also allow an engagement with what has been identified as the gradual erosion of individual agency within the law, and the concomitant rise of the state. Investigating the nature of the pardoning process shows how important it was to have "friends in high places," and also uncovers ways in which the legal system was susceptible to accusations of corruption. Readers will find an illuminating view of eighteenth-century London through a legal lens.
Author : Kate Fullagar
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300243065
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist written by Kate Fullagar and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of empire through the biographies of a Native American, a Pacific Islander, and the British artist who painted them both Three interconnected eighteenth-century lives offer a fresh account of the British empire and its intrusion into Indigenous societies. This engaging history brings together the stories of Joshua Reynolds and two Indigenous men, the Cherokee Ostenaco and the Ra'iatean Mai. Fullagar uncovers the life of Ostenaco, tracing his emergence as a warrior, his engagement with colonists through war and peace, and his eventual rejection of imperial politics during the American Revolution. She delves into the story of Mai, examining his confrontation with conquest and displacement, his voyage to London on Cook's imperial expedition, and his return home with a burning ambition to right past wrongs. Woven throughout is a new history of Reynolds--growing up in Devon near a key port in England, becoming a portraitist of empire, rising to the top of Britain's art world, and yet remaining ambivalent about his nation's expansionist trajectory.
Author : Wendell Bird
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197509215
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)
Download or read book The Revolution in Freedoms of Press and Speech written by Wendell Bird and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-28 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the revolutionary broadening of concepts of freedom of press and freedom of speech in Great Britain and in America in the late eighteenth century, in the period that produced state declarations of rights and then the First Amendment and Fox's Libel Act. The conventional view of the history of freedoms of press and speech is that the common law since antiquity defined those freedoms narrowly, and that Sir William Blackstone in 1769, and Lord Chief Justice Mansfield in 1770, faithfully summarized the common law in giving a very narrow definition of those freedoms as mere liberty from prior restraint and not liberty from punishment after something was printed or spoken. This book proposes, to the contrary, that Blackstone carefully selected the narrowest definition that had been suggested in popular essays in the prior seventy years, in order to oppose the growing claims for much broader protections of press and speech. Blackstone misdescribed his summary as an accepted common law definition, which in fact did not exist. A year later, Mansfield inserted a similar definition into the common law for the first time, also misdescribing it as a long-accepted definition, and soon misdescribed the unique rules for prosecuting sedition as having an equally ancient pedigree. Blackstone and Mansfield were not declaring the law as it had long been, but were leading a counter-revolution about the breadth of freedoms of press and speech, and cloaking it as a summary of a narrow common law doctrine that in fact was nonexistent. That conflict of revolutionary view and counter-revolutionary view continues today. For over a century, a neo-Blackstonian view has been dominant, or at least very influential, among historians. Contrary to those narrow claims, this book concludes that the broad understanding of freedoms of press and speech was the dominant context of the First Amendment and of Fox's Libel Act, and that it enjoyed greater historical support.
Author : Hannah Greig
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191664006
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book The Beau Monde written by Hannah Greig and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the world's first fashion-obsessed society in 18th-century London Caricatured for extravagance, vanity, glamorous celebrity and, all too often, embroiled in scandal and gossip, 18th-century London's fashionable society had a well-deserved reputation for frivolity. But to be fashionable in 1700s London meant more than simply being well dressed. Fashion denoted membership of a new type of society—the beau monde, a world where status was no longer determined by coronets and countryseats alone but by the more nebulous qualification of metropolitan 'fashion'. Conspicuous consumption and display were crucial; the right address, the right dinner guests, the right possessions, the right jewels, the right seat at the opera. The Beau Monde leads us on a tour of this exciting new world, from court and parliament to London's parks, pleasure grounds, and private homes. From brash displays of diamond jewellery to the subtle complexities of political intrigue, we see how membership of the new elite was won, maintained—and sometimes lost. On the way, we meet a rich and colourful cast of characters, from the newly ennobled peer learning the ropes and the imposter trying to gain entry by means of clever fakery, to the exile banned for sexual indiscretion. Above all, as the story unfolds, we learn that being a Fashionable was about far more than simply being 'modish'. By the end of the century, it had become nothing less than the key to power and exclusivity in a changed world.
Author : Margarette Lincoln
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300235380
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Trading in War written by Margarette Lincoln and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid account of the forgotten citizens of maritime London who sustained Britain during the Revolutionary Wars In the half-century before the Battle of Trafalgar the port of London became the commercial nexus of a global empire and launch pad of Britain’s military campaigns in North America and Napoleonic Europe. The unruly riverside parishes east of the Tower seethed with life, a crowded, cosmopolitan, and incendiary mix of sailors, soldiers, traders, and the network of ordinary citizens that served them. Harnessing little-known archival and archaeological sources, Lincoln recovers a forgotten maritime world. Her gripping narrative highlights the pervasive impact of war, which brought violence, smuggling, pilfering from ships on the river, and a susceptibility to subversive political ideas. It also commemorates the working maritime community: shipwrights and those who built London’s first docks, wives who coped while husbands were at sea, and early trade unions. This meticulously researched work reveals the lives of ordinary Londoners behind the unstoppable rise of Britain’s sea power and its eventual defeat of Napoleon.
Author : Siv Gøril Brandtzæg
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004362878
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Travelling Chronicles: News and Newspapers from the Early Modern Period to the Eighteenth Century written by Siv Gøril Brandtzæg and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travelling Chronicles presents fourteen episodes in the history of news, written by some of the leading scholars in the rapidly developing fields of news and newspaper studies. Ranging across eastern and western Europe and beyond, the chapters look back to the early modern period and into the eighteenth century to consider how the news of the past was gathered and spread, how news outlets gained respect and influence, how news functioned as a business, and also how the historiography of news can be conducted with the resources available to scholars today. Travelling Chronicles offers a timely analysis of early news, at a moment when historical newspaper archives are being widely digitalised and as the truth value of news in our own time undergoes intense scrutiny.
Author : Karen Harvey
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ISBN 13 : 0198734883
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book The Imposteress Rabbit Breeder written by Karen Harvey and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In September 1726, Mary Toft was found to have given birth to seventeen rabbits in Godalming, Surrey. The case caused a sensation and was reported widely in newspapers, popular pamphlets, poems and caricatures.
Author : William Cobbett
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Total Pages : 730 pages
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Download or read book Parliamentary History of England from the Normand Conquest, in 1066 to the Year 1803 written by William Cobbett and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
