Author: FrancePublisher:
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Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 24
Book Description
Arrêt de la Cour du Parlement de Provence, tenant la Chambre des Vacations, du 2 Septembre 1732. Lettre écrite à M***
Author: FranceCorrespondence
Author: VoltaireThe Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 4
Author: Jeremy BenthamPublisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1911576151
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
The first five volumes of the Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham contain over 1,300 letters written both to and from Bentham over a 50-year period, beginning in 1752 (aged three) with his earliest surviving letter to his grandmother, and ending in 1797 with correspondence concerning his attempts to set up a national scheme for the provision of poor relief. Against the background of the debates on the American Revolution of 1776 and the French Revolution of 1789, to which he made significant contributions, Bentham worked first on producing a complete penal code, which involved him in detailed explorations of fundamental legal ideas, and then on his panopticon prison scheme. Despite developing a host of original and ground-breaking ideas, contained in a mass of manuscripts, he published little during these years, and remained, at the close of this period, a relatively obscure individual. Nevertheless, these volumes reveal how the foundations were laid for the remarkable rise of Benthamite utilitarianism in the early nineteenth century. In 1789 Bentham published An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, which remains his most famous work, but which had little impact at the time, followed in 1791 by The Panopticon: or, The Inspection-House, in which he proposed the building of a circular penitentiary house. Bentham’s correspondence unfolds against the backdrop of the increasingly violent French Revolution, and shows his initial sympathy for France turning into hostility. On a personal level, in 1791 his brother Samuel returned from Russia, and in 1792 he inherited his father’s house in Queen’s Square Place, Westminster together with a significant property portfolio.
Between Exaltation and Infamy
Author: Stephen HaliczerPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195148630
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Using case-studies and biographies, the author examines women's mysticism in 16th- and 17th-century Spain and investigates the spiritual forces that provided women with a way to transcend the control of the male-dominated Catholic Church.
Huguenot Pedigrees
Author: Charles Edmund LartPublisher:
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Category : French
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Treasury Officials, 1660-1870
Author: Publisher: London : Athlone Press [for] University of London, Institute of Historical Research
ISBN:
Category : Executive departments
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
The African Shore
Author: Rodrigo Rey RosaPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300196105
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
Originally published as La Orilla Africana. F&G Editores.
Registers of the French Churches of Bristol, Stonehouse, and Plymouth
Author: Charles Edmund LartPublisher:
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Category : Bristol (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Essay on Political Tactics
Author: Jeremy BenthamPublisher:
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Category : Parliamentary practice
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
The State of the Poor
Author: Sir Frederick Morton EdenPublisher:
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Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 714
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