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The London Chronicle

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1757
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015013729085

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The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2, 1660-1800

Author : George Watson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1700 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1971-07-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521079349

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The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2, 1660-1800 by George Watson Pdf

More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 2 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.

Prosecuting Homicide in Eighteenth-Century Law and Practice

Author : Drew D. Gray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000047929

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Prosecuting Homicide in Eighteenth-Century Law and Practice by Drew D. Gray Pdf

This volume uses four case studies, all with strong London connections, to analyze homicide law and the pardoning process in eighteenth-century England. Each reveals evidence of how attempts were made to negotiate a path through the justice system to avoid conviction, and so avoid a sentence of hanging. This approach allows a deep examination of the workings of the justice system using social and cultural history methodologies. The cases explore wider areas of social and cultural history in the period, such as the role of policing agents, attitudes towards sexuality and prostitution, press reporting, and popular conceptions of "honorable" behavior. They also allow an engagement with what has been identified as the gradual erosion of individual agency within the law, and the concomitant rise of the state. Investigating the nature of the pardoning process shows how important it was to have "friends in high places," and also uncovers ways in which the legal system was susceptible to accusations of corruption. Readers will find an illuminating view of eighteenth-century London through a legal lens.

Travelling Chronicles: News and Newspapers from the Early Modern Period to the Eighteenth Century

Author : Siv Gøril Brandtzæg,Paul Goring,Christine Watson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004362871

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Travelling Chronicles: News and Newspapers from the Early Modern Period to the Eighteenth Century by Siv Gøril Brandtzæg,Paul Goring,Christine Watson Pdf

Travelling Chronicles presents fourteen episodes in the history of news, written by some of the leading scholars in the rapidly developing fields of news and newspaper studies. Ranging across eastern and western Europe and beyond, the chapters look back to the early modern period and into the eighteenth century to consider how the news of the past was gathered and spread, how news outlets gained respect and influence, how news functioned as a business, and also how the historiography of news can be conducted with the resources available to scholars today. Travelling Chronicles offers a timely analysis of early news, at a moment when historical newspaper archives are being widely digitalised and as the truth value of news in our own time undergoes intense scrutiny.

The Revolution in Freedoms of Press and Speech

Author : Wendell Bird
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780197509203

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The Revolution in Freedoms of Press and Speech by Wendell Bird Pdf

This book discusses the revolutionary broadening of concepts of freedom of press and freedom of speech in Great Britain and in America in the late eighteenth century, in the period that produced state declarations of rights and then the First Amendment and Fox's Libel Act. The conventional view of the history of freedoms of press and speech is that the common law since antiquity defined those freedoms narrowly, and that Sir William Blackstone in 1769, and Lord Chief Justice Mansfield in 1770, faithfully summarized the common law in giving a very narrow definition of those freedoms as mere liberty from prior restraint and not liberty from punishment after something was printed or spoken. This book proposes, to the contrary, that Blackstone carefully selected the narrowest definition that had been suggested in popular essays in the prior seventy years, in order to oppose the growing claims for much broader protections of press and speech. Blackstone misdescribed his summary as an accepted common law definition, which in fact did not exist. A year later, Mansfield inserted a similar definition into the common law for the first time, also misdescribing it as a long-accepted definition, and soon misdescribed the unique rules for prosecuting sedition as having an equally ancient pedigree. Blackstone and Mansfield were not declaring the law as it had long been, but were leading a counter-revolution about the breadth of freedoms of press and speech, and cloaking it as a summary of a narrow common law doctrine that in fact was nonexistent. That conflict of revolutionary view and counter-revolutionary view continues today. For over a century, a neo-Blackstonian view has been dominant, or at least very influential, among historians. Contrary to those narrow claims, this book concludes that the broad understanding of freedoms of press and speech was the dominant context of the First Amendment and of Fox's Libel Act, and that it enjoyed greater historical support.

Trading in War

Author : Margarette Lincoln
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300235388

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A vivid account of the forgotten citizens of maritime London who sustained Britain during the Revolutionary Wars In the half-century before the Battle of Trafalgar the port of London became the commercial nexus of a global empire and launch pad of Britain’s military campaigns in North America and Napoleonic Europe. The unruly riverside parishes east of the Tower seethed with life, a crowded, cosmopolitan, and incendiary mix of sailors, soldiers, traders, and the network of ordinary citizens that served them. Harnessing little-known archival and archaeological sources, Lincoln recovers a forgotten maritime world. Her gripping narrative highlights the pervasive impact of war, which brought violence, smuggling, pilfering from ships on the river, and a susceptibility to subversive political ideas. It also commemorates the working maritime community: shipwrights and those who built London’s first docks, wives who coped while husbands were at sea, and early trade unions. This meticulously researched work reveals the lives of ordinary Londoners behind the unstoppable rise of Britain’s sea power and its eventual defeat of Napoleon.

The Printed Reader

Author : Amelia Dale
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684481040

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Shortlisted for the 2021 BARS First Book Prize (British Association for Romantic Studies)​ The Printed Reader explores the transformative power of reading in the eighteenth century, and how this was expressed in the fascination with Don Quixote and in a proliferation of narratives about quixotic readers, readers who attempt to reproduce and embody their readings. Through intersecting readings of quixotic narratives, including work by Charlotte Lennox, Laurence Sterne, George Colman, Richard Graves, and Elizabeth Hamilton, Amelia Dale argues that literature was envisaged as imprinting—most crucially, in gendered terms—the reader’s mind, character, and body. The Printed Reader brings together key debates concerning quixotic narratives, print culture, sensibility, empiricism, book history, and the material text, connecting developments in print technology to gendered conceptualizations of quixotism. Tracing the meanings of quixotic readers’ bodies, The Printed Reader claims the social and political text that is the quixotic reader is structured by the experiential, affective, and sexual resonances of imprinting and impressions. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

News as Changing Texts

Author : Udo Fries,Nicholas Brownlees,Roberto Facchinetti
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443885546

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News as Changing Texts by Udo Fries,Nicholas Brownlees,Roberto Facchinetti Pdf

The updated and revised edition of this volume maintains its focus on the dialectic interrelation between ‘news’ and ‘change’. News is intended as a textual type in its evolutionary – and revolutionary – development, while change is discussed with reference to the form, content and structure of news texts. The news texts in question range from the first forms of periodical news in the seventeenth century up to the news blogs and social media of the present day. Divided into four chapters, representing key historical moments in the process of news writing, each chapter makes use of a set of corpora specifically designed to suit the needs of scholars working in those particular fields. Topics that the authors examine include pronominal usage and the interrelationship between news writer and reader, heads and headlines, the language of advertisements and other text classes, the trend towards conversationalization, and impartiality and ‘perspective’ in modern-day news. These and other topics, coupled with the varying corpora that are exploited to analyse them, call into question basic methodological issues that are examined from different perspectives. Throughout the volume, the authors contextualise the news publications of the day so as to better understand the continuous process of adjustment and renewal that news texts are subject to over time.

The English Newspaper, 1622-1932

Author : Stanley Morison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521122694

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The English Newspaper, 1622-1932 by Stanley Morison Pdf

A bibliographical history of newspaper development.

Balancing Strategy

Author : Anna Brinkman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009425575

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What is the relationship between seapower, law, and strategy? Anna Brinkman uses in-depth analysis of cases brought before the Court of Prize Appeal during the Seven Years' War to explore how Britain worked to shape maritime international law to its strategic advantage. Within the court, government officials and naval and legal minds came together to shape legal decisions from the perspectives of both legal philosophy and maritime strategic aims. As a result, neutrality and the negotiation of rights became critical to maritime warfare. Balancing Strategy unpicks a complex web of competing priorities: deals struck with the Dutch Republic and Spain; imperial rivalry; mercantilism; colonial trade; and the relationships between metropoles and colonies, trade, and the navy. Ultimately, influencing and shaping international law of the sea allows a nation to create the norms and rules that constrain or enable the use of seapower during war.

The Rise of Robert Dodsley

Author : Harry M. Solomon
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 080931651X

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The Rise of Robert Dodsley by Harry M. Solomon Pdf

The new biography of the publisher and bookseller who premiered the work of Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson deftly integrates Dodsley's life story with the literary transition from court patronage to the age of print that paved the way for the Romantic movement of the 19th century. Solomon (English, Auburn U.) details the unique circumstances that led Dodsley from his position as a weaver's apprentice to his career as a playwright, culminating in his last incarnation as one of the most influential literary forces of his time. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Rotten Bodies

Author : Kevin Siena
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300245424

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A revealing look at how the memory of the plague held the poor responsible for epidemic disease in eighteenth-century Britain Britain had no idea that it would not see another plague after the horrors of 1666, and for a century and a half the fear of epidemic disease gripped and shaped British society. Plague doctors had long asserted that the bodies of the poor were especially prone to generating and spreading contagious disease, and British doctors and laypeople alike took those warnings to heart, guiding medical ideas of class throughout the eighteenth century. Dense congregations of the poor—in workhouses, hospitals, slums, courtrooms, markets, and especially prisons—were rendered sites of immense danger in the public imagination, and the fear that small outbreaks might run wild became a profound cultural force. Extensively researched, with a wide body of evidence, this book offers a fascinating look at how class was constructed physiologically and provides a new connection between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries and the ravages of plague and cholera, respectively.

Bare-Knuckle Britons and Fighting Irish

Author : Adam Chill
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476663302

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Bare-Knuckle Britons and Fighting Irish by Adam Chill Pdf

Boxing was phenomenally popular in 18th and 19th century Britain. Aristocrats attended matches and patronized boxers, and the most important fights drew tens of thousands of spectators. Promoters of the sport claimed that it showcased the timeless and authentic ideal of English manhood--a rock of stability in changing times. Yet many of the best fighters of the era were Irish, Jewish or black. This history focuses on how boxers, journalists, politicians, pub owners and others used national, religious and racial identities to promote pugilism and its pure English pedigree, even as ethnic minorities won distinction in the sport, putting the diversity of the Empire on display.