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Languages : en
Pages : 288
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A Collection of Tracts on the subjects of Taxing the British Colonies in America and regulating their trade
Author: The Persistence of Party
Author: Max SkjönsbergPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108899048
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
Political parties are taken for granted today, but how was the idea of party viewed in the eighteenth century, when core components of modern, representative politics were trialled? From Bolingbroke to Burke, political thinkers regarded party as a fundamental concept of politics, especially in the parliamentary system of Great Britain. The paradox of party was best formulated by David Hume: while parties often threatened the total dissolution of the government, they were also the source of life and vigour in modern politics. In the eighteenth century, party was usually understood as a set of flexible and evolving principles, associated with names and traditions, which categorised and managed political actors, voters, and commentators. Max Skjönsberg thus demonstrates that the idea of party as ideological unity is not purely a nineteenth- or twentieth-century phenomenon but can be traced to the eighteenth century.
Party Ideology and Popular Politics at the Accession of George III
Author: John BrewerPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521287012
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
This book is a reappraisal of English politics in the first decade of George III's reign. It sets out to explain how party politics changed, and what problems that created for the parliamentary elite. The issues of party, of patriotism as it manifested itself in the elder Pitt's political career, and of the relations between the notions of ministerial responsibility and the powers of the Crown are all used to illuminate the nature of political conflict. Special emphasis is placed on Burke's notions of party. The schisms created by this reconfiguration of party politics, Dr Brewer argues, had effects beyond Westminster. He discusses extra-parliamentary forms of political expression, notably the press, and goes on to show how the career of John Wilkes and the critique of British politics developed by American radicals gave focus to a variety of political discontents, and produced new arguments in favour of parliamentary reform. Throughout his study he emphasises the interplay between popular and parliamentary politics. His work is designed to show that the 'political nation' included many other than the parliamentary classes, and that the political conflicts of the period cannot be properly understood without a full examination of political ideology.
Report of the Work of the Public Archives for the Year ...
Author: Public Archives of CanadaPublisher:
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 1268
Book Description
Sessional Papers
Author: Canada. ParliamentPublisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1274
Book Description
"Report of the Dominion fishery commission on the fisheries of the province of Ontario, 1893", issued as vol. 26, no. 7, supplement.
Report Concerning Canadian Archives
Author: Public Archives CanadaPublisher:
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 962
Book Description
Report accompanied by historical documents, calendars, etc.
Catalogue of the Astor Library
Author: Astor LibraryPublisher: Cambridge [Mass.] : Riverside Press
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1140
Book Description
William Knox
Author: Leland J. BellotPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292759568
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Colonial expert and pamphleteer William Knox has received attention in virtually every major study of the American Revolution, yet this is the first biography of Knox ever written. Knox is best known as undersecretary of state in the American Department of the British government from 1770 to 1782. A prolific and candid commentator, he also made a reputation as a pamphleteer, defending the imperial cause during the decade preceding the Revolution. It had been his experience as provost marshal in Georgia from 1757 to 1762 that convinced Knox of the danger to the empire of the growing "democratic" forces in the American colonies. While numerous historical works have focused on this or that aspect of Knox's career and thought, such treatment has produced at best a jigsaw portrait. Bellot's comprehensive narrative reveals Knox as a person—one whose Calvinist heritage and Scots-Irish upbringing profoundly influenced his view of empire—and as a historical actor and witness. Here is a look at the events of the revolutionary period through the eyes of a British bureaucrat who had a significant role in both the formation and the execution of British policy. This perspective also provides an excellent case study of the operation of the eighteenth-century British bureaucracy.
Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature
Author: Samuel HalkettPublisher: Edinburgh : Oliver and Boyd.
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Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms, English
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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