The Culture Of Equity In Restoration And Eighteenth Century Britain And America

Author : Mark Fortier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317036630

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The Culture of Equity in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Britain and America by Mark Fortier Pdf

Drawing on politics, religion, law, literature, and philosophy, this interdisciplinary study is a sequel to Mark Fortier’s bookThe Culture of Equity in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2006). The earlier volume traced the meanings and usage of equity in broad cultural terms (including but not limited to law) to position equity as a keyword of valuation, persuasion, and understanding; the present volume carries that work through the Restoration and eighteenth century in Britain and America. Fortier argues that equity continued to be a keyword, used and contested in many of the major social and political events of the period. Further, he argues that equity needs to be seen in this period largely outside the Aristotelian parameters that have generally been assumed in scholarship on equity.

Author : James Gregory
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350142459

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The Royal Throne of Mercy and British Culture in the Victorian Age by James Gregory Pdf

In the first detailed study of its kind, James Gregory's book takes a historical approach to mercy by focusing on widespread and varied discussions about the quality, virtue or feeling of mercy in the British world during Victoria's reign. Gregory covers an impressive range of themes from the gendered discourses of 'emotional' appeal surrounding Queen Victoria to the exercise and withholding of royal mercy in the wake of colonial rebellion throughout the British empire. Against the backdrop of major events and their historical significance, a masterful synthesis of rich source material is analysed, including visual depictions (paintings and cartoons in periodicals and popular literature) and literary ones (in sermons, novels, plays and poetry). Gregory's sophisticated analysis of the multiple meanings, uses and operations of royal mercy duly emphasise its significance as a major theme in British cultural history during the 'long 19th century'. This will be essential reading for those interested in the history of mercy, the history of gender, British social and cultural history and the legacy of Queen Victoria's reign.

Author : James Gregory
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350142602

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Mercy and British Culture, 1760-1960 by James Gregory Pdf

Spanning over 2 centuries, James Gregory's Mercy and British Culture, 1760 -1960 provides a wide-reaching yet detailed overview of the concept of mercy in British cultural history. While there are many histories of justice and punishment, mercy has been a neglected element despite recognition as an important feature of the 18th-century criminal code. Mercy and British Culture, 1760-1960 looks first at mercy's religious and philosophical aspects, its cultural representations and its embodiment. It then looks at large-scale mobilisation of mercy discourses in Ireland, during the French Revolution, in the British empire, and in warfare from the American war of independence to the First World War. This study concludes by examining mercy's place in a twentieth century shaped by total war, atomic bomb, and decolonisation.

Author : Mark Knights
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198796244

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Trust and Distrust by Mark Knights Pdf

Mark Knights offers the first overview of Britain's history of corruption in office in the pre-modern era, 1600-1850. Drawing on extensive archival material, Knights shows how corruption in the domestic and imperial spheres interacted, and how the concept of corruption developed during this period, changing British ideas of trust and distrust.

Author : Daniel L. Rentfro
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532651007

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The Law of Freedom by Daniel L. Rentfro Pdf

The Law of Freedom: Justice and Mercy in the Practice of Law examines the legal and theological roots of the concept of equity, and the implications that the diminishment of equity as a legal concept has for the moral dilemmas faced by the practicing lawyer. Meditating on the book of Micah, the book argues that the Christian duty asks for both strict justice and gracious mercy, with the prophet’s third value—humility—essential for both the individual lawyer and the legal system as a whole to balance strict justice and mercy.

Author : Daniel Fischlin
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781442669376

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OuterSpeares by Daniel Fischlin Pdf

For Shakespeare and Shakespearean adaptation, the global digital media environment is a “brave new world” of opportunity and revolution. In OuterSpeares: Shakespeare, Intermedia, and the Limits of Adaptation, noted scholars of Shakespeare and new media consider the ways in which various media affect how we understand Shakespeare and his works. Daniel Fischlin and his collaborators explore a wide selection of adaptations that occupy the space between and across traditional genres – what artist Dick Higgins calls “intermedia” – ranging from adaptations that use social networking, cloud computing, and mobile devices to the many handicrafts branded and sold in connection with the Bard. With essays on YouTube and iTunes, as well as radio, television, and film, OuterSpeares is the first book to examine the full spectrum of past and present adaptations, and one that offers a unique perspective on the transcultural and transdisciplinary aspects of Shakespeare in the contemporary world.

Author : Susan E. Whyman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192518705

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The Useful Knowledge of William Hutton by Susan E. Whyman Pdf

The Useful Knowledge of William Hutton shows the rapid rise of a self-taught workman and the growing prominence of the city of Birmingham during the two major events of the eighteenth-century - the Industrial Revolution and the Enlightenment. Hutton achieved wealth, land, status, and literary fame, but later became a victim of violent riots. The book boldly claims that an understanding of the Industrial Revolution requires engagement with the figure of the 'rough diamond', a person of worth and character, but lacking in manners, education, and refinement. A cast of unpolished entrepreneurs is brought to life as they drive economic and social change, and improve their towns and themselves. The book also contends that the rise of Birmingham cannot be understood without accepting that its vibrant cultural life was a crucial factor that spurred economic growth. Readers are plunged into a hidden provincial world marked by literacy, bookshops, printing, authorship, and the spread of useful knowledge. We see that ordinary people read history and wrote poetry, whilst they grappled with the effects of industrial change. Newly discovered memoirs reveal social conflict and relationships in rare detail. They also address the problems of social mobility, income inequality, and breath-taking technological change that continue to perplex us today.

Author : Richard Hillman,Pauline Ruberry-Blanc
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317135883

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Female Transgression in Early Modern Britain by Richard Hillman,Pauline Ruberry-Blanc Pdf

Presenting a broad spectrum of reflections on the subject of female transgression in early modern Britain, this volume proposes a richly productive dialogue between literary and historical approaches to the topic. The essays presented here cover a range of ’transgressive’ women: daughters, witches, prostitutes, thieves; mothers/wives/murderers; violence in NW England; violence in Scotland; single mothers; women as (sexual) partners in crime. Contributions illustrate the dynamic relation between fiction and fact that informs literary and socio-historical analysis alike, exploring female transgression as a process, not of crossing fixed boundaries, but of negotiating the epistemological space between representation and documentation.

Author : Katie Halsey,Jane Slinn
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443810227

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The Concept and Practice of Conversation in the Long Eighteenth Century, 1688-1848 by Katie Halsey,Jane Slinn Pdf

This collection of essays brings together eighteenth-century scholars from a variety of disciplines, to discuss conversation in the eighteenth century as concept and practice. At the heart of the volume is a simple question: are eighteenth-century conceptualisations of the role and purpose of conversation still relevant or useful to scholars and thinkers today? This volume contains essays by leading scholars of the period as well as early career researchers, and answers a need for a broad-ranging discussion of the concept of conversation in the arts, social sciences and humanities. The long eighteenth century is a particularly fruitful starting point for work on this topic, since ideas about conversation permeated all types of writing in this period, from the early forerunners of scientific textbooks to philosophical dialogues. The collection covers an exceptionally wide range of long-eighteenth-century authors, artists, lawmakers, texts and works of art, and, although the focus of the volume is largely on eighteenth-century Britain, the volume takes note of the rich relationships between continental European thought and British intellectual life in the period, and of the influence of British ideas in the newly independent American republic.

Author : Hugh T. Swedenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1123448742

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England in the restoration and early eighteenth century by Hugh T. Swedenberg Pdf

Author : Stephen Foster
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192513588

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British North America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries by Stephen Foster Pdf

Until relatively recently, the connection between British imperial history and the history of early America was taken for granted. In recent times, however, early American historiography has begun to suffer from a loss of coherent definition as competing manifestos demand various reorderings of the subject in order to combine time periods and geographical areas in ways that would have previously seemed anomalous. It has also become common place to announce that the history of America is best accounted for in America itself in a three-way melee between "settlers", the indigenous populations, and the forcibly transported African slaves and their creole descendants. The contributions to British North America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries acknowledge the value of the historiographic work done under this new dispensation in the last two decades and incorporate its insights. However, the volume advocates a pluralistic approach to the subject generally, and attempts to demonstrate that the metropolitan power was of more than secondary importance to America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The central theme of this volume is the question "to what extent did it make a difference to those living in the colonies that made up British North America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that they were part of an empire and that the empire in question was British?" The contributors, some of the leading scholars in their respective fields, strive to answer this question in various social, political, religious, and historical contexts.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015055578085

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Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847252432

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Crisis of Empire by Jeremy Black Pdf

A new account of the changing relationship between Britain and America in the 18th Century that helped to define both nations.

Author : Kathleen Wilson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0521810272

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A New Imperial History by Kathleen Wilson Pdf

While other histories of the British empire have focused on administration, politics and policy, this collection of essays examines the cultural impact of empire on British and colonial people's sense of self, as well as on their social relations in the eighteenth century. The contributions by leading scholars analyze the ways in which theater, sociability, artistic and literary production, history, slavery and identity were affected by Britain's contacts with America, India, Africa and the South Pacific.

Author : Laura L. Bierema,Jamie L. Callahan,Carole J. Elliott,Tomika W. Greer,Joshua C. Collins
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000957587

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Human Resource Development by Laura L. Bierema,Jamie L. Callahan,Carole J. Elliott,Tomika W. Greer,Joshua C. Collins Pdf

Human Resource Development: Critical Perspectives and Practices is a landmark textbook on HRD scholarship and practice and is a significant departure from the standard HRD texts available. Based on Bierema and Callahan’s framework for critical human resource development, this book develops an understanding of HRD that addresses both key and contested issues of practice associated with relating, learning, changing, and organizing for organizations. This book covers the basic tenets of HRD, interrogates the dominant paradigms and practices of the field, teaches readers how to critically assess HRD practices and outcomes, and provides critical alternatives. The text also addresses HRD as a contested field and the importance for HRD professionals to reflect on their values, maintain their sanity, and retain their employment while attempting to do this difficult work that serves multiple stakeholders. The text weaves in Points to Ponder, Case in Point, and Tips & Tools features and exercises, giving readers an insight into HRD issues across the globe. This critical text offers an exciting alternative to the instrumentalist, managerialist, and masculine perspective of other books. Designed for students and practitioners, this textbook will be essential reading for upper-level courses on human resource development, human resource management, and adult education.