Author: Sir George Henry RosePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
A Selection from the Papers of the Earls of Marchmont
Author: Sir George Henry RosePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
“A” Selection from the Papers of the Earls of Marchmont
Author: George Henry RoseA Selection from the Papers of the Earls of Marchmont, in the Possession of the Right Hon. Sir George Henry Rose
Author: Sir George Henry RosePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
A Selection from the Papers of the Earls of Marchmont
Author: HardPressA Selection from the Papers of the Earls of Marchmont
Author: A Selection from the Papers of the Earls of Marchmont
Author: Sir George Henry Rose (M.P.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
A Selection from the Papers of the Earls of Marchmont, in the Possession of the Right Hon. Sir George Henry Rose
Author: George Henry RosePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Bulletin of the Virginia State Library
Author: Virginia State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Early Modern Political Petitioning and Public Engagement in Scotland, Britain and Scandinavia, c.1550-1795
Author: Karin BowiePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000293505
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
This book assesses the everyday use of petitions in administrative and judicial settings and contrasts these with more assertive forms of political petitioning addressed to assemblies or rulers. A petition used to be a humble means of asking a favour, but in the early modern period, petitioning became more assertive and participative. This book shows how this contrasted to ordinary petitioning, often to the consternation of authorities. By evaluating petitioning practices in Scotland, England and Denmark, the book traces the boundaries between ordinary and adversarial petitioning and shows how non-elites could become involved in politics through petitioning. Also observed are the responses of authorities to participative petitions, including the suppression or forgetting of unwelcome petitions and consequent struggles to establish petitioning as a right rather than a privilege. Together the chapters in this book indicate the significance of collective petitioning in articulating early modern public opinion and shaping contemporary ideas about opinion at large. The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Parliaments, Estates & Representation.
Three Victories and a Defeat
Author: Brendan SimmsPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0786727225
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
In the eighteenth century, Britain became a world superpower through a series of sensational military strikes. Traditionally, the Royal Navy has been seen as Britain's key weapon, but in Three Victories and a Defeat Brendan Simms argues that Britain's true strength lay with the German aristocrats who ruled it at the time. The House of Hanover superbly managed a complex series of European alliances that enabled Britain to keep the continental balance of power in check while dramatically expanding her own empire. These alliances sustained the nation through the War of the Spanish Succession, the War of the Austrian Succession, and the Seven Years' War. But in 1776, Britain lost the American continent by alienating her European allies. An extraordinary reinterpretation of British and American history, Three Victories and a Defeat is a masterwork by a rising star of the historical profession.