The Age Of Improvement 1783 1867

Author : Asa Briggs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317878537

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The Age of Improvement, 1783-1867 by Asa Briggs Pdf

The Age of Improvement has long established itself as a classic of modern historical writing. Widely read and quoted it has had a unique influence on teaching and research. This second edition draws on the great volume of new research - produced by Lord Briggs amongst others, since its original publication. The book stresses both the underlying unity and the rich variety of the age, and raises fundamental issues about a period of crucial change in British history - industrialisation, war, constitutional change and the attitudes of politicians towards it, political development, and, not least, society and culture. In the background are the new economic powers based on the development of a coal and iron technology; in the foreground, new social and political problems and new ways of tackling them. The author also discusses perceptions of, and reactions to, changing circumstances, the influence of religion and science on national life, and changing styles in art and literature. The story ends, not with a full stop but with a question mark. Could improvement be maintained? Could balance and progress continue to be reconciled?

Author : Asa Briggs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:255104664

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“The” Age of Improvement by Asa Briggs Pdf

Author : Asa Briggs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OCLC:961078458

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The Age of Improvement, 1783-1867 by Asa Briggs Pdf

Author : Asa Briggs
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000121900

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The Age of Improvement, 1783-1867 by Asa Briggs Pdf

With over 80,000 copies sold since its first appearance in 1959, The Age of Improvement has every right to claim the status of a classic of modern historical writing. Asa Briggs' masterly study of the period stresses the underlying unity of the age. In the background are the new economic powers based on the development of a coal and iron technology, in the foreground, the problems posed by the world's first industrial revolution.

Author : Asa Briggs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317878544

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The Age of Improvement, 1783-1867 by Asa Briggs Pdf

The Age of Improvement has long established itself as a classic of modern historical writing. Widely read and quoted it has had a unique influence on teaching and research. This second edition draws on the great volume of new research - produced by Lord Briggs amongst others, since its original publication. The book stresses both the underlying unity and the rich variety of the age, and raises fundamental issues about a period of crucial change in British history - industrialisation, war, constitutional change and the attitudes of politicians towards it, political development, and, not least, society and culture. In the background are the new economic powers based on the development of a coal and iron technology; in the foreground, new social and political problems and new ways of tackling them. The author also discusses perceptions of, and reactions to, changing circumstances, the influence of religion and science on national life, and changing styles in art and literature. The story ends, not with a full stop but with a question mark. Could improvement be maintained? Could balance and progress continue to be reconciled?

Author : Asa Briggs
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X000334201

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The Age of Improvement by Asa Briggs Pdf

Author : Alvin Rabushka
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1412824060

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From Adam Smith to the Wealth of America by Alvin Rabushka Pdf

This book demonstrates that because the United States is enmeshed in a complexity of regulations, government debt, bureaucracy, and taxes does not mean that these policies cannot be reversed. They have been before. Rabushka describes an earlier reversal of mercantilist claims by a growing group of influential politicians influenced by Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations. It is Rabushka's contention that Adam Smith's principles of sound money, taxes, minimal governmental regulation, and free trade have led to prosperity.

Author : Eric J. Evans
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317873716

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The Forging of the Modern State by Eric J. Evans Pdf

In this hugely ambitious history of Britain, Eric Evans surveys every aspect of the period in which the country was transformed into the world’s first industrial power. This was an era of revolutionary change unparalleled in Britain, yet one in which transformation was achieved without political revolution. The unique combination of transition and revolution is a major theme in the book, which ranges across the embryonic empire, the Church, education, health, finance, and rural and urban life. Evans gives particular attention to the Great Reform Act of 1832. The Third Edition includes an entirely new introductory chapter, and is illustrated for the first time.

Author : Asa Briggs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UCSC:32106006042946

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The Making of Modern England, 1783-1867 by Asa Briggs Pdf

Author : Royal Historical Society
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1999-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0521650097

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Transactions of the Royal Historical Society: Volume 8 by Royal Historical Society Pdf

Volume 8 of The Royal Historical Society Transactions contains essays based around the theme 'identities and empires'.

Author : Fouad Sabry
Publisher : One Billion Knowledgeable
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : PKEY:6610000553105

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Eminent Legacy by Fouad Sabry Pdf

Who is Eminent Legacy Sir Hrothgar John Habakkuk was a British economic historian. How you will benefit (I) Insights about the following: Chapter 1: John Habakkuk Chapter 2: Colin Lucas Chapter 3: David Cannadine Chapter 4: Ascension Parish Burial Ground Chapter 5: John Clapham (economic historian) Chapter 6: John Kingman Chapter 7: Drummond Bone Chapter 8: Richard Adrian, 2nd Baron Adrian Chapter 9: Asa Briggs Chapter 10: David Eastwood Chapter 11: David Williams (British legal scholar) Chapter 12: Arthur Shipley Chapter 13: Keith Thomas (historian) Chapter 14: Roderick Floud Chapter 15: John Macnaghten Whittaker Chapter 16: Evan Evans (academic) Chapter 17: Andy Orchard Chapter 18: Peter Spufford Chapter 19: Robert Heuston Chapter 20: John Beckett (historian) Chapter 21: Peter Holford Who this book is for Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information about Eminent Legacy.

Author : Eric. J Evans
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317885467

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Britain before the Reform Act by Eric. J Evans Pdf

In the years1815-1832, Britain came close to revolution. Fewer than twenty years separate the Battle of Waterloo from the passing of the ‘Great’ Reform Act but during this period Britain’s political elite was challenged as never before. In rising to that challenge, the political elite attempted, with considerable success, to ensure that Britain engineered that most perilous of transitions, from a less complex and more deferential society into a modern urban and industrial one, while avoding political revolution. In this extensively revised 2nd edition Evans engages with a welter of new material and fresh interpretations. The book sheds light both on the challenges to existing political and social authority and why those challenges were seen off. Evans examines: · The composition of Britain’s political elite and how this elite coped with the problems thrown up by a society urbanising and modernising at an unprecedented rate. · How Britain reacted to the longer-term implications of the French Revolution, including the development of a more cohesive national identity. · How the elite attempted to maintain public order in this period – and with what success. · The extent of change in Britain’s political system brought about by political, religious and administrative reforms Written in accessible style, with a rich collection of documents, chronology, glossary, a guide to further reading,and a ‘Who’s Who’ which summarises the careers and contributions of the main figures, this new edition is essential for all those interested in understanding Britain at this most crucial turning point in its history.

Author : Richard W. Hoyle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351946636

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Custom, Improvement and the Landscape in Early Modern Britain by Richard W. Hoyle Pdf

A great deal has been written about the acceleration of English agriculture in the early modern period. In the late middle ages it was hard to see that English agriculture was so very different from that of the continent, but by 1750 levels of agricultural productivity in Britain were well ahead of those general in northern Europe. The country had become much more urban and the proportion of the population engaged in agriculture had fallen. Customary modes of behaviour, whilst often bitterly defended, had largely been swept away. Contemporaries were quite clear that a process of improvement had taken place which had seen agriculture reshaped and made much more productive. Exactly what that process was has remained surprisingly obscure. This volume addresses the fundamental notion of improvement in the development of the British landscape from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Contributors present a variety of cases of how improvement, custom and resistance impacted on the local landscape, which includes manorial estates, enclosures, fens, forests and urban commons. Disputes between tenants and landlords, and between neighbouring landlords, over improvement meant that new economic and social identities were forged in the battle between innovation and tradition. The volume also includes an analysis of the role of women as agricultural improvers and a case study of what can happen when radical improvement failed. The volume will be essential reading for scholars of landscape studies, rural and agrarian history, but will also provide a useful context for anybody studying the historical legacy of mankind's exploitation of the environment and its social, economic, legal and political consequences.

Author : Susie L. Steinbach
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134818181

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Understanding the Victorians by Susie L. Steinbach Pdf

Understanding the Victorians paints a vivid portrait of this era of dramatic change, combining broad survey with close analysis and introducing students to the critical debates taking place among historians today. Encompassing all of Great Britain and Ireland over the whole of the Victorian period, it gives prominence to social and cultural topics alongside politics and economics and emphasises class, gender, and racial and imperial positioning as constitutive of human relations. This second edition is fully updated throughout, containing a new chapter on leisure in the Victorian period, the most recent historiographical research in Victorian Studies, and enhanced coverage of imperialism and working-class life. Starting with the Queen Caroline Affair in 1820 and coming up to the start of World War I in 1914, Susie L. Steinbach uses thematic chapters to discuss and evaluate topics such as politics, imperialism, the economy, class, gender, the monarchy, arts and entertainment, religion, sexuality, religion, and science. There are also three chapters on space, consumption, and the law, topics rarely covered at this introductory level. With a clear introduction outlining the key themes of the period, a detailed timeline, and suggestions for further reading and relevant internet resources, this is the ideal companion for all students of the nineteenth century.

Author : Alex Benchimol,Gerard Lee McKeever
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351056403

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Cultures of Improvement in Scottish Romanticism, 1707-1840 by Alex Benchimol,Gerard Lee McKeever Pdf

The first applied research volume in Scottish Romanticism, this collection foregrounds the concept of progress as 'improvement' as a constitutive theme of Scottish writing during the long eighteenth century. It explores improvement as the animating principle behind Scotland’s post-1707 project of modernization, a narrative both shaped and reflected in the literary sphere. It represents a vital moment in Romantic studies, as a 'four-nations' interrogation of the British context reaches maturity. Equally, the volume contributes to a central concern in the study of Scottish culture, amplifying a critical synthesis of Romanticism and Enlightenment. The conceptual motif of improvement allows an illumination of the boundaries (and beyond) of conventional notions of Romanticism, tracing its long, evolving imbrication with Enlightenment in Scotland. Exploring the holistic treatment of improvement in Scottish literature, chapter-studies include work on agricultural improvement and processes of commercialization, polite cultural renewal and the cotton trade, an expanding print culture and spirituality in death rituals. Taken as a whole, this amounts to an interdisciplinary re-consideration of the central role of improvement in Scottish cultural history of the long eighteenth century, of interest to a wide range of scholars, reflecting the vitality of the exchange between Enlightenment and Romanticism in Scotland.