Stability And Strife

Author : William Arthur Speck,W. A. Speck
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : 0674833503

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Stability and Strife by William Arthur Speck,W. A. Speck Pdf

This sparkling account of the great age of Whiggery during the reigns of George I and II is distinguished by its attention to social history. The author deftly explains how the political transformation which brought an end to the âeoerage of partyâe under Queen Anne and ushered in the âeoestrife of factionâe under the Hanoverians was related to social and economic conditions. This major political change brought stability to England andâe"by important, though incremental shifts in mobility, religion, agriculture, industry, and literacyâe"slowly transformed English society. W. A. Speck argues that in 1714 England was ruled by rival elites called Tory and Whig and that by 1760 they had fused to form a ruling class. This union became possible as divisive issues faded and economic and political interests were shared. Whiggery itself, however, split apart for lesser reasons. âeoeCountryâe Whigs were restorationists on moral and religious grounds while âeoeCourtâe Whigsâe"neither Saints, nor Spartans, nor Reformersâe"created the mechanisms to realize the promise of the Glorious Revolution of 1689: mixed monarchy, property and liberty, and Protestantism. Stability and Strife is the most up-to-date book in English eighteenth-century history in its methodsâe"the use of social science data and literary sourcesâe"and in its sophisticated topical and narrative approaches to this fascinating era.

Author : William Arthur Speck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:760384598

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Stability and Strife. England 1714-1760. [Mit Kt. U. Tab.] (Repr., with Corr.) - (London): Arnold (1980). 311 S. 8° by William Arthur Speck Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OCLC:217271142

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Author : Michel Conan
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0884023044

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Baroque Garden Cultures by Michel Conan Pdf

Baroque Garden Cultures proposes a new approach to the study of baroque gardens, examining the social reception of gardens as a means to understand garden culture in general and exploring baroque gardens as a feature of baroque cultures in particular.

Author : Jonathan Oates
Publisher : Pen and Sword True Crime
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-23
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781399070621

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Dick Turpin by Jonathan Oates Pdf

Why does the notorious highwayman Dick Turpin have such an extraordinary reputation today? How come his criminal career has inspired a profusion of often misleading literature and film? This eighteenth-century villain is often portrayed as a hero – dashing, sinister, romantic, daring, a Robin Hood of his times. The reality, as Jonathan Oates reveals in this perceptive, carefully researched study, was radically different. He was a robber, torturer and killer, a gangster whose posthumous reputation has eclipsed the truth about his life. In the early 1700s Turpin progressed from butcher’s apprentice and poacher to become a member of the Gregory gang which terrorized householders around London by robbery and violence. Then came his two-year career as a highwayman robbing travelers, his partnership with Matthew King whom he may have killed in Whitechapel, his murder Thomas Morris in Epping Forest, and his eventual capture and execution. Jonathan Oates recounts the episodes in Turpin’s short, brutal life in dramatic detail, basing his narrative on contemporary sources – trial records and newspapers in particular – and he traces the development of the Turpin legend over 250 years through novels, ballads, plays, television and film. The Dick Turpin who emerges from this rigorous and scholarly biography is in many ways a more interesting man than the legend suggests.

Author : Whitney Richard David Jones
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 0838638376

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The Tree of Commonwealth, 1450-1793 by Whitney Richard David Jones Pdf

While full account is taken of authoritative secondary works, including recent scholarly controversies, the book's strength comes from the detailed illustration from original sources of its comparative analysis."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Kirsten T. Saxton, Rebecca P. Bocchicchio
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0813126789

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The Passionate Fictions of Eliza Haywood by Kirsten T. Saxton, Rebecca P. Bocchicchio Pdf

The most prolific woman writer of the eighteenth century, Eliza Haywood (1693-1756?) was a key player in the history of the English novel. Along with her contemporary Defoe, she did more than any other writer to create a market for fiction prior to the emergence of Richardson, Fielding, and Smollett. Also one of Augustan England's most popular authors, Haywood came to fame in 1719 with the publication of her first novel, Love in Excess. In addition to writing fiction, she was a playwright, translator, bookseller, actress, theater critic, and editor of The Female Spectator , the first English periodical written by women for women. Though tremendously popular, her novels and plays from the 1720s and 30s scandalized the reading public with explicit portrayals of female sexuality and led others to call her "the Great Arbitress of Passion." Essays in this collection explore themes such as the connections between Haywood's early and late work, her experiments with the form of the novel, her involvement in party politics, her use of myth and plot devices, and her intense interest in the imbalance of power between men and women. Distinguished scholars such as Paula Backschieder, Felicity Nussbaum, and John Richetti approach Haywood from a number of theoretical and topical positions, leading the way in a crucial reexamination of her work. The Passionate Fictions of Eliza Haywood examines the formal and ideological complexities of her prose and demonstrates how Haywood's texts deft traditional schematization.

Author : Jacob Abadi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003848820

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Between Arabia and the Holy Land by Jacob Abadi Pdf

This volume is a general survey of the history of Jordan from ancient times to the present. The author covers the major events that took place in this region since ancient times. Starting with the history of the region in Biblical times, the author discusses the major developments in the ancient kingdoms of Edom, Moab, and Amon, which shared common borders with the Hebrew kingdoms. He then provides a detailed coverage of the events that took place during the Nabatean period. The author demonstrates how the character of this region had changed with the rise of Islam and the expansion of the Arabs and their encounter with the Byzantines. In addition, the author demonstrates how the rise of the Mamluk Sultanate affected the region. The author provides a detailed analysis explaining how the Hashemite Kingdom Jordan emerged and how the Ottomans and the British contributed to its rise. In addition to the political developments that took place in this region, the reader will become familiar with the economic, social, and cultural developments which contributed to the emergence of the modern Hashemite Kingdom. The book’s audience includes college undergraduates, graduates, postgraduates, scholars, as well as lay readers with interest in this strategically important region. The book is based on primary and secondary sources written in several languages.

Author : Ted Robert Gurr,Charles Ruttenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Insurgency
ISBN : UOM:39015004853555

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Cross-national Studies of Civil Violence by Ted Robert Gurr,Charles Ruttenberg Pdf

This report is an evaluation of a general, explanatory theory of the conditions of violent civil conflict. The theory is tested through application of complex and powerful statistical techniques to data from a large number of nations. (Author).

Author : Stephen Saunders Webb
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300182606

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Marlborough's America by Stephen Saunders Webb Pdf

Scholars of British America generally conclude that the early eighteenth-century Anglo-American empire was commercial in economics, liberal in politics, and parochial in policy, somnambulant in an era of "salutary neglect," but Stephen Saunders Webb here demonstrates that the American provinces, under the spur of war, became capitalist, coercive, and aggressive, owing to the vigorous leadership of career army officers, trained and nominated to American government by the captain general of the allied armies, the first duke of Marlborough, and that his influence, and that of his legates, prevailed through the entire century in America. Webb's work follows the duke, whom an eloquent enemy described as "the greatest statesman and the greatest general that this country or any other country has produced," his staff and soldiers, through the ten campaigns, which, by defanging France, made the union with Scotland possible and made "Great Britain" preeminent in the Atlantic world. Then Webb demonstrates that the duke's legates transformed American colonies into provinces of empire. "Marlborough's America," fifty years in the making, is the fourth volume of "The Governors-General."

Author : Robert D. Cornwall
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Anglican Communion
ISBN : 0874134668

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Visible and Apostolic by Robert D. Cornwall Pdf

This book examines the development of high church Anglican ecclesiology in the half century following the Glorious Revolution of 1688. It attempts to demonstrate that a significant body of Christians existed in England who espoused a traditionalist and often primitivist Christianity.

Author : Robert M. Andrews
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004293793

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Lay Activism and the High Church Movement of the Late Eighteenth Century by Robert M. Andrews Pdf

In Lay Activism and the High Church Movement of the Late Eighteenth Century, Robert M. Andrews presents a biography of the late eighteenth-century High Church layman, William Stevens (1732-1807), elucidating his influence within the High Church movement of his day.

Author : N.E.S. Griffiths
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773571860

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From Migrant to Acadian by N.E.S. Griffiths Pdf

N.E.S. Griffiths uses the results of forty-five years of archival research in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Italy to place Acadian history in the context of contemporary North American and European events. She emphasizes relationships with the Mi'kmaq, showing they were of crucial importance in the development of Acadian identity, land-holding practices, settlement patterns, religious beliefs, and family structure. From Migrant to Acadian also explains how the imperial ambitions of both the French and the British collided with the strong belief of the Acadians in their own identity, resulting in the tragic deportation of the majority of the Acadian community in 1755. Although never achieving political independence, the Acadians forged a connection with Canada's broader national identity and continue to play a significant role in the Canadian mosaic.

Author : Ted Robert Gurr,Charles Ruttenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105044383342

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The Conditions of Civil Violence by Ted Robert Gurr,Charles Ruttenberg Pdf

Author : Dr Ahmad Shayeq Qassem
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781409499428

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Afghanistan's Political Stability by Dr Ahmad Shayeq Qassem Pdf

Political stability has been a central theme of policy for all governments and political systems in the history of modern Afghanistan. Since its inception in the mid-nineteenth century, the country experimented with a diverse succession of political systems and state ideologies matched by few other countries' political histories. In the span of less than nine decades since independence in 1919, the Afghan state was substantially restructured at least a dozen times. This volume looks at Afghanistan's historic relations with Central and South Asia, ethno-nationalism and development, Soviet occupation and transformation of relations with Pakistan, stability of the Islamic State and regional cooperation. It examines how Afghanistan's different political systems reformed and readjusted policies to make them more conducive to political stability. Yet political stability, at best, has remained a dream unrealized in Afghanistan.