Author: John TruslerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Chronology; Or, A Concise View of the Annals of England
Author: John TruslerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Charting the Past
Author: Jeremy BlackPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253037808
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Eighteenth-century England was a place of enlightenment and revolution: new ideas abounded in science, politics, transportation, commerce, religion, and the arts. But even as England propelled itself into the future, it was preoccupied with notions of its past. Jeremy Black considers the interaction of history with knowledge and culture in eighteenth-century England and shows how this engagement with the past influenced English historical writing. The past was used as a tool to illustrate the contemporary religious, social, and political debates that shaped the revolutionary advances of the era. Black reveals this "present-centered" historical writing to be so valued and influential in the eighteenth-century that its importance is greatly underappreciated in current considerations of the period. In his customarily vivid and sweeping approach, Black takes readers from print shop to church pew, courtroom to painter's studio to show how historical writing influenced the era, which in turn gave birth to the modern world.
The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 2
Author: Jeremy BenthamPublisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1911576283
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 562
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. Bentham’s correspondence reveals that in the late 1770s he was working intensively on developing a code of penal law, but also expanding his acquaintance and, to a moderate degree, enhancing his reputation as a legal thinker. A significant family event took place in 1779 when his brother Samuel went to Russia in order to make his fortune.
The Oxford History of the Irish Book, Volume III
Author: Raymond GillespiePublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199247056
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Volume III of the Oxford History of the Irish Book outlines the impact of the rise of print in early modern Ireland in a series of groundbreaking essays, charting the development of a print culture in Ireland and the transformations it brought to conceptions of politics, religion, and literature. This is an authoritative volume with essays by key scholars that will be the standard guide for many years to come.
The Works of Charlotte Smith, Part II vol 6
Author: Stuart CurranPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000749282
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
Charlotte Turner Smith held a central position during the formative years of the British Romantic period. Smith's work includes eleven novels and two fictional adaptations from the French. This edition reveals the extent to which Smith's work in this form constitutes as significant an achievement as her poetry.
The Dictionary of National Biography, Founded in 1882 by George Smith
Author: Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Leslie StephenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Dictionary of National Biography
Author: The Family Book of History; Comprising a Concise View of the Most Interesting and Important Events in the History of All the Civilized Nations of the Earth
Author: Jesse OlneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World history
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1801-1815
Author: Publisher: Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England : Avero
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description