Party Ideology And Popular Politics At The Accession Of George Iii

Author : John Brewer
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1981-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0521287014

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Party Ideology and Popular Politics at the Accession of George III by John Brewer Pdf

This book is a reappraisal of English politics in the first decade of George III's reign. It sets out to explain how party politics changed, and what problems that created for the parliamentary elite. The issues of party, of patriotism as it manifested itself in the elder Pitt's political career, and of the relations between the notions of ministerial responsibility and the powers of the Crown are all used to illuminate the nature of political conflict. Special emphasis is placed on Burke's notions of party. The schisms created by this reconfiguration of party politics, Dr Brewer argues, had effects beyond Westminster. He discusses extra-parliamentary forms of political expression, notably the press, and goes on to show how the career of John Wilkes and the critique of British politics developed by American radicals gave focus to a variety of political discontents, and produced new arguments in favour of parliamentary reform. Throughout his study he emphasises the interplay between popular and parliamentary politics. His work is designed to show that the 'political nation' included many other than the parliamentary classes, and that the political conflicts of the period cannot be properly understood without a full examination of political ideology.

Author : Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:642274594

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Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III. by Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier Pdf

Author : James M. Vaughn
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300208269

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The Politics of Empire at the Accession of George III by James M. Vaughn Pdf

An important revisionist history that casts eighteenth-century British politics and imperial expansion in a new light In this bold debut work, historian James M. Vaughn challenges the scholarly consensus that British India and the Second Empire were founded in "a fit of absence of mind." He instead argues that the origins of the Raj and the largest empire of the modern world were rooted in political conflicts and movements in Britain. It was British conservatives who shaped the Second Empire into one of conquest and dominion, emphasizing the extraction of resources and the subjugation of colonial populations. Drawing on a wide array of sources, Vaughn shows how the East India Company was transformed from a corporation into an imperial power in the service of British political forces opposed to the rising radicalism of the period. The Company's dominion in Bengal, where it raised territorial revenue and maintained a large army, was an autocratic bulwark of Britain's established order. A major work of political and imperial history, this volume offers an important new understanding of the era and its global ramifications.

Author : Pentland Gordon Pentland
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474405683

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Liberty, Property and Popular Politics by Pentland Gordon Pentland Pdf

Few scholars can claim to have shaped the historical study of the long eighteenth century more profoundly than Professor H. T. Dickinson, who, until his retirement in 2006, held the Sir Richard Lodge Chair of British History at the University of Edinburgh. This volume, based on contributions from Professor Dickinson's students, friends and colleagues from around the world, offers a range of perspectives on eighteenth-century Britain and provides a tribute to a remarkable scholarly career.Professor Dickinson's work and career provides the ideal lens through which to take a detailed snapshot of current research in a number of areas. The volume includes contributions from scholars working in intellectual history, political and parliamentary history, ecclesiastical and naval history; discussions of major themes such as Jacobitism, the French Revolution, popular radicalism and conservatism; and essays on prominent individuals in English and Scottish history, including Edmund Burke, Thomas Muir, Thomas Paine and Thomas Spence. The result is a uniquely rich and detailed collection with an impressive breadth of coverage.

Author : Oxford University Press
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199808403

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Hanoverian Britain: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide by Oxford University Press Pdf

This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated. This ebook is just one of many articles from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Atlantic History, a continuously updated and growing online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through the scholarship and other materials relevant to the study of Atlantic History, the study of the transnational interconnections between Europe, North America, South America, and Africa, particularly in the early modern and colonial period. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.oxfordbibliographies.com.

Author : Karen Stanbridge
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0739105582

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Toleration and State Institutions by Karen Stanbridge Pdf

Toleration and State Institutions explores the rise of more charitable British policy toward Catholics in Ireland and in Quebec during the latter half of the eighteenth century. Applying a historical institutionalist approach, Karen Stanbridge demonstrates that "Catholic relief" arose more gradually, and encountered less opposition, than is generally maintained. Her careful analysis shows that the growth of toleration among political lites, and the concerns of administrators wishing to secure the allegiance of Catholic subjects, were only two of many factors leading to the development of policy kinder to Catholics. Toleration and State Institutions sheds new light on the official treatment (and mistreatment) of minorities at home during the height of British expansion abroad, offering a fascinating example of the divisions and rapprochements that characterize the relationship between state and society.

Author : H T Dickinson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781003852919

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Liberty and Property by H T Dickinson Pdf

First Published in 1977, Liberty and Property is a pioneering book which covers a long period, from 1688 to 1790 and beyond, and makes a major contribution to our understanding of eighteenth-century British politics. The relationship between political ideas and political reality is difficult to define. Consequently, historians seldom attempt to link thought and action, but concentrate solely upon the facts of a given political situation. In this book H.T. Dickinson has succeeded in redressing the imbalance. Taking as his theme the ideas and arguments used to defend or reform the constitution and political order in Britain, he combines what men wrote and said with what they actually did. His achievement is to have opened up an entirely new avenue of eighteenth-century British political history. The author bases his study on a wealth of contemporary evidence, much of it previously untouched. It includes the treatises of all major political thinkers and propagandists, all reported parliamentary debates from 1688 to 1800, literally thousands of pamphlets, sermons, magazines and newspapers, as well as an abundance of politically conscious literature by writers such as Addison, Swift, Steele, Pope and many others. This is a must read for scholars of political history, British political history and political studies.

Author : Katlyn Marie Carter
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780300246926

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Democracy in Darkness by Katlyn Marie Carter Pdf

How debates over secrecy and transparency in politics during the eighteenth century shaped modern democracy Does democracy die in darkness, as the saying suggests? This book reveals that modern democracy was born in secrecy, despite the widespread conviction that transparency was its very essence. In the years preceding the American and French revolutions, state secrecy came to be seen as despotic--an instrument of monarchy. But as revolutionaries sought to fashion representative government, they faced a dilemma. In a context where gaining public trust seemed to demand transparency, was secrecy ever legitimate? Whether in Philadelphia or Paris, establishing popular sovereignty required navigating between an ideological imperative to eradicate secrets from the state and a practical need to limit transparency in government. The fight over this--dividing revolutionaries and vexing founders--would determine the nature of the world's first representative democracies. Unveiling modern democracy's surprisingly shadowy origins, Carter reshapes our understanding of how government by and for the people emerged during the Age of Revolutions.

Author : Peter David Garner Thomas
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0719064295

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George III by Peter David Garner Thomas Pdf

George III was a high-profile and well-known character in British history whose policies have often been blamed for the loss of Britain's American colonies, around whom rages a perennial dispute over his aims: was he seeking to restore royal power or merely exercising his constitutional rights?

Author : Hannah Barker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317883456

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Newspapers and English Society 1695-1855 by Hannah Barker Pdf

This lively new study covers the dramatic expansion of the press from the seventeenth century to the mid nineteenth century. Hannah Barker explores the factors behind the rise of newspapers to a major force helping to reflect and shape public opinion and altering the way in which politics operated at every level of English life. Newspapers, Politics and English Society 1695-1855 provides a unique insight into the political and social history of eighteenth and nineteenth century England as well as an important study of the history of the media.

Author : Humberto Garcia
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421405322

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Islam and the English Enlightenment, 1670–1840 by Humberto Garcia Pdf

A corrective addendum to Edward Said’s Orientalism, this book examines how sympathetic representations of Islam contributed significantly to Protestant Britain’s national and imperial identity in the eighteenth century. Taking a historical view, Humberto Garcia combines a rereading of eighteenth-century and Romantic-era British literature with original research on Anglo-Islamic relations. He finds that far from being considered foreign by the era’s thinkers, Islamic republicanism played a defining role in Radical Enlightenment debates, most significantly during the Glorious Revolution, French Revolution, and other moments of acute constitutional crisis, as well as in national and political debates about England and its overseas empire. Garcia shows that writers such as Edmund Burke, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, and Percy and Mary Shelley not only were influenced by international events in the Muslim world but also saw in that world and its history a viable path to interrogate, contest, and redefine British concepts of liberty. This deft exploration of the forgotten moment in early modern history when intercultural exchange between the Muslim world and Christian West was common resituates English literary and intellectual history in the wider context of the global eighteenth century. The direct challenge it poses to the idea of an exclusionary Judeo-Christian Enlightenment serves as an important revision to post-9/11 narratives about a historical clash between Western democratic values and Islam.

Author : James E. Bradley
Publisher : Mercer University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0865541817

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Popular Politics and the American Revolution in England by James E. Bradley Pdf

Author : Wenkai He
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781009334518

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Public Interest and State Legitimation by Wenkai He Pdf

Suggests that public interest was vital to early modern state legitimacy and political reform in Western Europe and East Asia.

Author : David Brown,Robert Crowcroft,Gordon Pentland
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191024269

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The Oxford Handbook of Modern British Political History, 1800-2000 by David Brown,Robert Crowcroft,Gordon Pentland Pdf

The two centuries after 1800 witnessed a series of sweeping changes in the way in which Britain was governed, the duties of the state, and its role in the wider world. Powerful processes - from the development of democracy, the changing nature of the social contract, war, and economic dislocation - have challenged, and at times threatened to overwhelm, both governors and governed. Such shifts have also presented challenges to the historians who have researched and written about Britain's past politics. This Handbook shows the ways in which political historians have responded to these challenges, providing a snapshot of a field which has long been at the forefront of conceptual and methodological innovation within historical studies. It comprises thirty-three thematic essays by leading and emerging scholars in the field. Collectively, these essays assess and rethink the nature of modern British political history itself and suggest avenues and questions for future research. The Oxford Handbook of Modern British Political History thus provides a unique resource for those who wish to understand Britain's political past and a thought-provoking 'long view' for those interested in current political challenges.

Author : Andoni Artola,Álvaro París
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9783031295119

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Royalism, War and Popular Politics in the Age of Revolutions, 1780s-1870s by Andoni Artola,Álvaro París Pdf

This book offers a ground-breaking approach to royalism and popular politics in Europe and the Americas during the Age of Revolutions. It shows how royalist and counterrevolutionary movements did not propose a mere return to the past, but rather introduced an innovative way of addressing the demands and expectations of various social groups. Ordinary people were involved in the war and adapted the traditional imaginary of the monarchy to craft new models of political participation. This edited collection brings together scholars from France, Spain, Norway, and Mexico, to provide a transatlantic comparative perspective. It is a must-read for scholars and students looking to discover the lesser-known side of the Age of Revolutions, and the motivations of those who fought in the name of the king.