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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1760
Category : Anglo-French War, 1755-1763
ISBN : BL:A0018410217
Author : Gentleman in the country
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1760
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1087467090
Author : Rory T. Cornish
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781527546370
The administration of George Grenville, 1763-1765, continues to divide historians. The passage of his American Stamp Act was widely debated by his contemporaries, damned by nineteenth-century Whig historians, and criticized by many historians well into the twentieth-century. The Stamp Act proved to be a political blunder which helped precipitate the outbreak of the American Revolution, and it is this, together with Grenville’s own forbidding personality, which has coloured how he has been largely remembered. Indeed, as one of his more recent biographers has noted, Grenville’s political career has been mainly judged on the comments made by his contemporary political enemies. Grenville, however, came to the premiership after spending twenty years in office and was perceived by many as an efficient and energetic minister; a capable and conscientious man who got things done. This present study adds to the recent reappraisal of Grenville’s career by investigating how he and his followers interacted with, and attempted to influence, the activities of the increasing political press during the first decade of the reign of George III. The Grenvillite pamphleteers were both well-organized and effective in their defence of their political patron, and the press activities of Thomas Whately, William Knox, Augustus Hervey, and Charles Lloyd are fully investigated here within the larger context of the political debates from 1763 to 1770. The impact East Indian issues, Irish affairs, John Wilkes, and American colonial problems had on shaping British public opinion are also examined. The book concludes, with regard to the American colonies at least, that the Grenvillite vision of empire was essentially traditional and mainstream. Stubborn, peevish, and argumentative he may have been, but Grenville was hardly the scourge of the American colonies as previously portrayed; nor was he the lone author of all the trouble between Britain and her American colonies as some American historians have suggested. George Grenville will remain a controversial figure in eighteenth-century British political history, but this study offers an examination of his political activities from a different perspective, and thus helps broaden our estimation of a minister who has been considered for too long as one of the worst prime ministers during the long reign of George III.
Author : Robert Harris
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0191554383
The author presents a new picture of political life in mid-eighteenth century Britain, a period of history which is poorly understood. Written in a clear, accessible style, and drawing on much original material, this book argues that British politics and political culture in the mid eighteenth century have often been poorly understood through over-emphasis on 'stability'. Using a thematic approach, it reconstructs a political world in which vital issues continued to exercise the minds and emotions of those who made up the contemporary 'political nation', a group which included far more than the handful of politicans who competed for national political office. This is a book which interprets its subject broadly, and which seeks to tell the stories of politics in this period through the words and projects, hopes and fears, of contemporaries . It also represents an important contribution to the difficult, but important, project of writing the history of the British Isles. Development in Scotland and Ireland are given careful attention along with those of England.
Author : Joseph Sabin,Wilberforce Eames,Robert William Glenroie Vail
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : America
ISBN : NLS:V000012601
Author : Joseph Sabin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : America
ISBN : HARVARD:HB9RNP
Author : Edwin Wolf,Kevin J. Hayes
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 1012 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0871692570
Beginning in the 1950s, Edwin Wolf 2nd embarked on a biblio'l. quest to reconstruct the library of Benjamin Franklin, which was the largest & best private library in Amer. at the time of his death & was subsequently dispersed. The contents of Franklin's library were virtually unknown until Wolf identified the unique shelfmarks that Franklin used to organize his books. That discovery allowed Wolf to locate 2,700 titles in 1,000 vols. that Franklin actually owned. Wolf also identified a further 700 titles owned by Franklin. After wolf's death, Kevin Hayes took up the project & brought it to fruition. This catalogue includes almost 4,000 books known to have been owned by Franklin, & the Intro. tells the complete story of Franklin's library, its dispersal, & its reconstruction.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11455965
Author : Charlotte Sussman
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812252026
A compelling study of views about population and demographic mobility in the British long eighteenth century In John Milton's Paradise Lost of 1667, Adam and Eve are promised they will produce a "race to fill the world," a thought that consoles them even after the trauma of the fall. By 1798, the idea that the world would one day be entirely filled by people had become, in Thomas Malthus's hands, a nightmarish vision. In Peopling the World, Charlotte Sussman asks how and why this shift took place. How did Britain's understanding of the value of reproduction, the vacancy of the planet, and the necessity of moving people around to fill its empty spaces change? Sussman addresses these questions through readings of texts by Malthus, Milton, Swift, Defoe, Goldsmith, Sir Walter Scott, Mary Shelley, and others, and by placing these authors in the context of debates about scientific innovation, emigration, cultural memory, and colonial settlement. Sussman argues that a shift in thinking about population and mobility occurred in the third quarter of the eighteenth century. Before that point, both political and literary texts were preoccupied with "useless" populations that could be made useful by being dispersed over Britain's domestic and colonial territories; after 1760, a concern with the depopulation caused by emigration began to take hold. She explains this change in terms of the interrelated developments of a labor theory of value, a new idea of national identity after the collapse of Britain's American empire, and a move from thinking of reproduction as a national resource to thinking of it as an individual choice. She places Malthus at the end of this history because he so decisively moved thinking about population away from a worldview in which there was always more space to be filled and toward the temporal inevitability of the whole world filling up with people.
Author : Paula R. Backscheider,Catherine Ingrassia
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405192453
A Companion to the Eighteenth-century Novel furnishes readers with a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth-century novel in its political, aesthetic, and moral contexts. An up-to-date resource for the study of the eighteenth-century novel Furnishes readers with a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth-century novel in its political, aesthetic, and moral context Foregrounds those topics of most historical and political relevance to the twenty-first century Explores formative influences on the eighteenth-century novel, its engagement with the major issues and philosophies of the period, and its lasting legacy Covers both traditional themes, such as narrative authority and print culture, and cutting-edge topics, such as globalization, nationhood, technology, and science Considers both canonical and non-canonical literature
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433000291421
Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1048 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : English literature
ISBN : UCAL:C2643730
Author : British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1292 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : English imprints
ISBN : PSU:000030000957
Author : Marie Peters
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015001981896
Author : Freda Farrell Waldon,William F. E. Morley,National Library of Canada
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026047709
HONOURABLE MENTION: The Alcuin Citation for Excellence in Book Design The chronological arrangement of approximately 865 titles and editions in this comprehensive bibliography of printed works published in Great Britain to 1763 (the Treaty of Paris) includes books, pamphlets, maps, broadsides, and broadsheets which concern in some way any part of the present area of Canada. Each entry includes a bibliographic description, a statement of format, pertinent references to other catalogues or bibliographies, notes about the work, and locations of known copies in Canadian libraries.
