The Dreadful Monster And Its Poor Relations

Author : Julian Hoppit
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780241434437

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The Dreadful Monster and its Poor Relations by Julian Hoppit Pdf

'An invaluable primer to some of the underlying tensions behind contemporary political debate' Financial Times It has always been an important part of British self-image to see the United Kingdom as an ancient, organic and sensibly managed place, in striking contrast to the convulsions of other European countries. Yet, as Julian Hoppit makes clear in this fascinating and surprising book, beneath the complacent surface the United Kingdom has in fact been in a constant, often very tense argument with itself about how it should be run and, most significantly, who should pay for what. The book takes its argument from an eighteenth century cartoon which shows the central state as the 'Dreadful Monster', gorging itself at the dinner table on all the taxes it can grab. Meanwhile the 'Poor Relations' - Scotland, Wales and Ireland, both poor because of tax but also poor in the sense of needing special treatment - are viewed in London as an endless 'drain on the state'. With drastically different levels of prosperity, population, industry, agriculture and accessibility between the United Kingdom's different nations, what is a fair basis for paying for the state?

Author : Helen Paul,Nicholas Di Liberto,D`Maris Coffman
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783031318948

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The Bubble Act by Helen Paul,Nicholas Di Liberto,D`Maris Coffman Pdf

This book reassesses the actual effects of the Bubble Act, still popularly associated with the bursting of the South Sea Bubble. The book builds on the foundational work of Ron Harris to discuss the act’s effect on corporate governance, literary culture, colonial law, and the Industrial Revolution. The Bubble Act was deemed an empty letter within England itself as it was rarely used in legal proceedings. Several chapters consider whether this was the case outside England, from Scotland to the Americas, India, and Africa. Others assess the impact of the act, both on literary culture and in the history of economic thought. The act has been conceptualized as a brake on economic development or of little consequence. This edited collection offers a timely reassessment of the Bubble Act and its legacy.

Author : Murray Pittock
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300254174

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Scotland by Murray Pittock Pdf

An engaging and authoritative history of Scotland's influence in the world and the world's on Scotland, from the Thirty Years War to the present day Scotland is one of the oldest nations in the world, yet by some it is hardly counted as a nation at all. Neither a colony of England nor a fully equal partner in the British union, Scotland's history has often been seen as simply a component part of British history. But the story of Scotland is one of innovation, exploration, resistance--and global consequence. In this wide-ranging, deeply researched account, Murray Pittock examines the place of Scotland in the world. Pittock explores Scotland and Empire, the rise of nationalism, and the pressures on the country from an increasingly monolithic understanding of "Britishness." From the Thirty Years' War to Jacobite risings and today's ongoing independence debates, Scotland and its diaspora have undergone profound changes. This ground-breaking account reveals the diversity of Scotland's history and shows how, after the country disappeared from the map as an independent state, it continued to build a global brand.

Author : Maxine Berg,Pat Hudson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781509552702

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Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution by Maxine Berg,Pat Hudson Pdf

The role of slavery in driving Britain's economic development is often debated, but seldom given a central place. In their remarkable new book, Maxine Berg and Pat Hudson ‘follow the money’ to document in revealing detail the role of slavery in the making of Britain’s industrial revolution. Slavery was not just a source of wealth for a narrow circle of slave owners who built grand country houses and filled them with luxuries. The forces set in motion by the slave and plantation trades seeped into almost every aspect of the economy and society. In textile mills, iron and copper smelting, steam power, and financial institutions, slavery played a crucial part. Things we might think far removed from the taint of slavery, such as eighteenth-century fashions for indigo-patterned cloth, sweet tea, snuff boxes, mahogany furniture, ceramics and silverware, were intimately connected. Even London’s role as a centre for global finance was partly determined by the slave trade as insurance, financial trading and mortgage markets were developed in the City to promote distant and risky investments in enslaved people. The result is a bold and unflinching account of how Britain became a global superpower, and how the legacy of slavery persists. Acknowledging Britain’s role in slavery is not just about toppling statues and renaming streets. We urgently need to come to terms with slavery’s inextricable links with Western capitalism, and the ways in which many of us continue to benefit from slavery to this day.

Author : Jagjeet Lally
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003816812

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India and the Early Modern World by Jagjeet Lally Pdf

India and the Early Modern World provides an authoritative and wide-ranging survey of the Indian subcontinent over the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries, set within a global context. This book explores questions critical to our understanding of early modern India. How, for instance, were Indians’ religious beliefs, their ways of life, and the horizons of their learning changing over this period? What was happening in the countryside and towns, to culture and the arts, and to the state and its power? Were such experiences comparable or linked to those in other parts of the world? Can we speak of a global early modernity, therefore, within which India played an important role? Organised thematically, each chapter engages with such key issues, debates, and concepts, covering wide ground as it connects, compares, and contrasts developments witnessed across early modern South Asia to those around the globe. Drawing on the fruits of research in numerous fields over the past fifty years and rich in detail, India and the Early Modern World is a pathbreaking volume written engagingly and accessibly with scholars, students, and non-specialists in mind.

Author : Pepijn Brandon,Lex Heerma van Voss,Annemieke Romein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000585933

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The Early Modern State: Drivers, Beneficiaries and Discontents by Pepijn Brandon,Lex Heerma van Voss,Annemieke Romein Pdf

In the course of the early modern period, the capacity of European states to raise finances, wage wars, subject their own and far away populations, and exert bureaucratic power over a variety of areas of social life increased dramatically. Nevertheless, these changes were far less absolute and definitive than the literature on the rise of the "modern state" once held. While war pushed the boundaries of the emerging fiscal military states of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, rulers remained highly dependent on negotiations with competing elite groups and the private networks of contractors and financial intermediaries. Attempts to increase control over subjects often resulted in popular resistance, that in their turn set limits to and influenced the direction of the development of state institutions. Written in honour of the leading historian of war and state formation in the early modern Low Countries, Marjolein 't Hart, the chapters gathered in this volume examine the main drivers, beneficiaries and discontents of state formation across and beyond Europe in the early modern period.

Author : Honore de Balzac
Publisher : anboco
Page : 987 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783736411906

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Poor Relations by Honore de Balzac Pdf

THERE was nothing to distinguish the departure of the Murmania from that of any other big liner leaving New York in October for Liverpool or Southampton. At the crowded gangways there was the usual rain of ultimate kisses, from the quayside the usual gale of speeding handkerchiefs. Ladies in blanket-coats handed over to the arrangement of their table-stewards the expensive bouquets presented by friends who, as the case might be, had been glad or sorry to see them go. Middle-aged gentlemen, who were probably not at all conspicuous on shore, at once made their appearance in caps that they might have felt shy about wearing even during their university prime. Children in the first confusion of settling down ate more chocolates from the gift boxes lying about the cabins than they were likely to be given (or perhaps to want) for some time. Two young women with fresh complexions, short skirts, tam o' shanters, brightly colored jumpers, and big bows to their shoes were already on familiar terms with one of the junior ship's officers, and their laughter (which would soon become one of those unending oceanic accompaniments that make land so pleasant again) was already competing with the noise of the crew. Everybody boasted aloud that they fed you really well on the Murmania, and hoped silently that perhaps the sense of being imprisoned in a decaying hot-water bottle (or whatever more or less apt comparison was invented to suggest atmosphere below decks) would pass away in the fresh Atlantic breezes. Indeed it might be said, except in the case of a few ivory-faced ladies already lying back with the professional aloofness of those who are a prey to chronic headaches, that outwardly optimism was rampant...

Author : Kim Newman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781408817506

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Nightmare Movies by Kim Newman Pdf

Now over twenty years old, the original edition of Nightmare Movies has retained its place as a true classic of cult film criticism. In this new edition, Kim Newman brings his seminal work completely up-to-date, both reassessing his earlier evaluations and adding a second part that assess the last two decades of horror films with all the wit, intelligence and insight for which he is known. Since the publication of the first edition, horror has been on a gradual upswing, and taken a new and stronger hold over the film industry. Newman negotiates his way through a vast back-catalogue of horror, charting the on-screen progress of our collective fears and bogeymen from the low budget slasher movies of the 60s, through to the slick releases of the 2000s, in a critical appraisal that doubles up as a genealogical study of contemporary horror and its forebears. Newman invokes the figures that fuel the ongoing demand for horror - the serial killer; the vampire; the werewolf; the zombie - and draws on his remarkable knowledge of the genre to give us a comprehensive overview of the modern myths that have shaped the imagination of multiple generations of cinema-goers. Nightmare Movies is an invaluable companion that not only provides a newly updated history of the darker side of film but a truly entertaining guide with which to discover the less well-trodden paths of horror, and re-discover the classics with a newly instructed eye.

Author : Honoré de Balzac
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 677 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664560773

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The Poor Relations: Cousin Betty & Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac Pdf

"Cousin Betty" – Set in mid-19th-century Paris, it tells the story of an unmarried middle-aged woman who plots the destruction of her extended family. Bette works with Valérie Marneffe, an unhappily married young lady, to seduce and torment a series of men. One of these is Baron Hector Hulot, husband to Bette's cousin Adeline. He sacrifices his family's fortune and good name to please Valérie, who leaves him for a tradesman named Crevel. "Cousin Pons" – Sylvain Pons, a musician in a Parisian boulevard orchestra, has two failings: his passion for collecting works of art and his passion for good food. Being a gourmet, Pons much enjoys dining regularly with his wealthy lawyer cousins M. and Mme Camusot de Marville. To remain on good terms with the Camusots, he tries to find a man for their unappealing daughter Cécile, but when this falls through, he is banished. However, when Mme Camusot learns of the value of Pons's art collection she strives to obtain possession of it as the basis of a dowry for her daughter. In this new development of the plot a bitter struggle ensues between various vulture-like figures, all of whom are keen to lay their hands on the collection.

Author : Gilbert Abbott À Beckett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : STANFORD:36105048741628

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The Comic History of England by Gilbert Abbott À Beckett Pdf

Author : Gilbert Abbott À Beckett
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 910 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:4057664592378

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The Comic History of England by Gilbert Abbott À Beckett Pdf

Gilbert Abbott À Beckett offers a humorous take on the history of England in "The Comic History of England." While maintaining historical accuracy, À Beckett infuses the narrative with wit and satire, providing readers with a lighthearted and entertaining journey through the annals of English history. This work is a testament to À Beckett's comedic genius and his ability to make history accessible and enjoyable for all.

Author : Gilbert Abbott À Beckett,John Leech
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Caricatures and cartoons
ISBN : BL:A0024421196

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The Comic History of England ... With Twenty Coloured Etchings, and Two Hundred Woodcuts, by John Leech by Gilbert Abbott À Beckett,John Leech Pdf

Author : Оноре де Бальзак
Publisher : Litres
Page : 1055 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785040756063

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Poor Relations by Оноре де Бальзак Pdf

Author : Tobias George Smollett,Sir Walter Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015067207293

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Select Works of Tobias Smollett ... by Tobias George Smollett,Sir Walter Scott Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1823
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555031477

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The Manchester iris by Anonim Pdf