Author: Gilbert DyerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
A Catalogue of Dyer's Circulating Library, in the College, Exon
Author: Gilbert DyerA Catalogue of Dyer's Circulating Library in the College, Exon, Containing Between 3 and 4000 Volumes of the Principal Books in the English Language, Including Those Lately Published which are Lent for Reading at 12s. Per Year, - 4s. Per Quarter, Or by the Volume ...
Author: Gilbert DyerA Catalogue of Dyer's Circulating Library, in the College, Exon
Author: Gilbert DyerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 75
Book Description
A Catalogue of Dyer's Circulating Library, in the College, Exon; Containing Between 3 and 4000 Volumes, of the Principal Books in the English Language, Including Those Lately Published, Which Are Lent for Reading
Author: G. DYERPublisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
ISBN: 9781385790489
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T224864 Exeter: printed by R. Trewman, 1783. 75, [1]p.; 8°
A Catalogue of Dyer's Circulating Library, in the College, Exon
Author: Principles of Political Economy -
Author: John Stuart MillPublisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1596052406
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 477
Book Description
Can national growth be sustained indefinitely? How much should government intervene in a competitive market economy? The questions John Stuart Mill raised a century and a half ago, in 1848's Principles of Political Economy, and the answers he found, are just as critical-and just as contentiously debated-today. Through a lens of what the philosopher himself termed "philosophical radicalism"-and what some today call "democratic liberalism"-Mill takes a fresh look at Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations and other influential works of political thought of his time, and recasts them from a more scientific viewpoint, suggesting that such realities as the unequal distribution of wealth were not "natural" but rather a matter of human choice... choices we continue to have to make in our ever more complicated economy. Also available from Cosimo Classics: Selected Writings of John Stuart Mill and On Liberty. English philosopher and politician JOHN STUART MILL (1806-1873) was one of the foremost figure of Western intellectual thought in the late 19th century. He served as an administrator in the East Indian Company from 1823 to 1858, and as a member of parliament from 1865 to 1868. Among his essays on a wide range of political and social thought are On Liberty (1859), Considerations on Representative Government (1861), and The Subjection of Women (1869).
Early Public Libraries and Colonial Citizenship in the British Southern Hemisphere
Author: Lara AtkinPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 303020426X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
This open access Pivot book is a comparative study of six early colonial public libraries in nineteenth-century Australia, South Africa, and Southeast Asia. Drawing on networked conceptualisations of empire, transnational frameworks, and ‘new imperial history’ paradigms that privilege imbricated colonial and metropolitan ‘intercultures’, it looks at the neglected role of public libraries in shaping a programme of Anglophone civic education, scientific knowledge creation, and modernisation in the British southern hemisphere. The book’s six chapters analyse institutional models and precedents, reading publics and types, book holdings and catalogues, and regional scientific networks in order to demonstrate the significance of these libraries for the construction of colonial identity, citizenship, and national self-government as well as charting their influence in shaping perceptions of social class, gender, and race. Using primary source material from the recently completed ‘Book Catalogues of the Colonial Southern Hemisphere’ digital archive, the book argues that public libraries played a formative role in colonial public discourse, contributing to broader debates on imperial citizenship and nation-statehood across different geographic, cultural, and linguistic borders.
The English Common Reader: a Social History of the Mass Reading Public 1800-1900
Author: Richard D. AltickNeoliberalism
Author: Alfredo Saad-FilhoPublisher: Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Leading writer Boris Kagarlitsky offers an ambitious account of 1000 years of Russian history.
The Making of the English Working Class
Author: E. P. ThompsonPublisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504022173
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
A history of the common people and the Industrial Revolution: “A true masterpiece” and one of the Modern Library’s 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the twentieth century (Tribune). During the formative years of the Industrial Revolution, English workers and artisans claimed a place in society that would shape the following centuries. But the capitalist elite did not form the working class—the workers shaped their own creations, developing a shared identity in the process. Despite their lack of power and the indignity forced upon them by the upper classes, the working class emerged as England’s greatest cultural and political force. Crucial to contemporary trends in all aspects of society, at the turn of the nineteenth century, these workers united into the class that we recognize all across the Western world today. E. P. Thompson’s magnum opus, The Making of the English Working Class defined early twentieth-century English social and economic history, leading many to consider him Britain’s greatest postwar historian. Its publication in 1963 was highly controversial in academia, but the work has become a seminal text on the history of the working class. It remains incredibly relevant to the social and economic issues of current times, with the Guardian saying upon the book’s fiftieth anniversary that it “continues to delight and inspire new readers.”