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Category : Dutch War, 1672-1678
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
A Collection of State Tracts, Publish'd on Occasion of the Late Revolution in 1688, and During the Reign of King William III.
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Dutch War, 1672-1678
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
A Miscellaneous Collection of Catalogues of Second-hand Books on Sale with James Braidwood
Author: James Braidwood (Bookseller in Edinburgh.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
Representation and Misrepresentation in Later Stuart Britain
Author: Mark KnightsPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019151456X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
In this original and illuminating new study, Mark Knights reveals how the political culture of the eighteenth century grew out of earlier trends and innovations. Arguing that the period from 1675 needs to be seen as the second stage of a seventeenth-century revolution that ran on until c.1720, Representation and Misrepresentation in Later Stuart Britain charts the growth of a national political culture and traces the development of the public as an arbiter of politics. In doing so, it uncovers a crisis of public discourse and credibility, and finds a political enlightenment rooted in local and national partisan conflict. The later Stuart period was characterized by frequent elections, the lapse of pre-publication licensing, the emergence of party politics, the creation of a public debt, and ideological conflict over popular sovereignty. These factors combined to enhance the status of the 'public', not least in requiring it to make numerous acts of judgement. Contemporaries from across the political spectrum feared that the public might be misled by the misrepresentations pedalled by their rivals. Each side, and those ostensibly of no side, discerned a culture of passion, slander, libel, lies, hypocrisy, dissimulation, conspiracy, private languages, and fictions. 'Truth' appeared an ambiguous, political matter. Yet the reaction to partisanship was also creative, for it helped to construct an ideal form of political discourse. This was one based on reason rather than passion, on moderation rather than partisan zeal, on critical reading rather than credulity; and an increasing realization that these virtues arose from infrequent rather than frequent elections. Finding synergies between social, political, religious, scientific, literary, cultural, and intellectual history, Representation and Misrepresentation in Later Stuart Britain reinvigorates the debate about the emergence of 'the public sphere' in the later Stuart period.
Source-book of English History
Author: Guy Carleton LeePublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Leading Documents of English History
Author: Guy Carleton LeePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester
Author: Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester
Author: Chetham's LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Cheshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Catalogus librorum impressorum Bibliothecae Collegii B. Mariae Magdalenae in Academia Oxoniensi
Author: Magdalen College (University of Oxford). LibraryPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
The Library of John Montgomerie, Colonial Governor of New York and New Jersey
Author: Kevin J. HayesPublisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874137118
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
The group included men who would influence the two colonies for the next several decades. Though Montgomerie spent only a short time in New York and had little impact on either New York or New Jersey history, his books exerted a lasting influence on the thought of colonial New York's political and intellectual elite."--BOOK JACKET.
The Right to be King
Author: Howard NennerPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349129526
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
This book examines the theory and practice of the English monarchical succession from the end of Elizabeth's reign to the accession of George I. Tracing the transition from an uncertain rule to a crown in the disposal of parliament, Nenner focuses on the major routes to the throne over the long seventeenth century: hereditary right, conquest, and election. It is a study of the competing principles of parliamentary sovereignty and fundamental law, and the ways in which tension between dynastic expectations and national needs were addressed and resolved.