Author: Ellen J. JenkinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historians
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Eighteenth-century British Historians
Author: Ellen J. JenkinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historians
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
British Historians and the West Indies
Author: Eric WilliamsPublisher: A & B Book Dist Incorporated
ISBN: 9781881316640
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Modern Historians on British History 1485-1945 (Routledge Revivals)
Author: G.R. EltonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113698920X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The twenty-five year period following the Second World War saw an enormous expansion of activity in the writing of the history of modern Britain, and with that expansion a major transformation of the state of knowledge in many parts of the area. First published in 1970, this Revivals reissue, which includes an extensive coverage of books and a reasonable selection of articles, endeavours both to survey the work done and to reduce it to some comprehensible order. It indicates achievements and probable lines of development, and collects the materials that have grown around the main controversies. Omitted are local history (in the main) and the history of empire and commonwealth, except where the latter really arises out of the affairs of the mother country. There are special sections on social history, the history of ideas, Scotland and Ireland.
The Idea of Progress in Eighteenth-century Britain
Author: David SpadaforaPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300046717
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
The idea of progress stood at the very center of the intellectual world of eighteenth-century Britain, closely linked to every major facet of the British Enlightenment as well as to the economic revolutions of the period. Drawing on hundreds of eighteenth-century books and pamphlets, David Spadafora here provides the most extensive discussion ever written of this prevailing sense of historical optimism.
A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Britain
Author: H. T. DickinsonPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470998873
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
This authoritative Companion introduces readers to the developments that lead to Britain becoming a great world power, the leading European imperial state, and, at the same time, the most economically and socially advanced, politically liberal and religiously tolerant nation in Europe. Covers political, social, cultural, economic and religious history. Written by an international team of experts. Examines Britain's position from the perspective of other European nations.
Eighteenth-century British Historians of Mathematics
Author: Peter John WallisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Literary Historicity
Author: Ruth MackPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804759111
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Literary Historicity explores how eighteenth-century British writers considered the past as an aspect of experience. Mack moves between close examinations of literature, historiography, and recent philosophical writing on history, offering a new view of eighteenth-century philosophies of history in Britain. Such philosophies, she argues, could be important literarily without being focused, as has been assumed, on questions of fact and fiction. Eighteenth-century writers—like many twentieth-century philosophers—often used literary form not in order to exhibit a work's fictional status but in order to consider what the relation between the past and present might be. Literary Historicity portrays a British Enlightenment that both embraces the possibility of historical experience and interrogates the terms for such experience, one deeply engaged with historical consciousness not as an inevitability of the modern world, but as something to be understood within it.
Ideology and Empire in Eighteenth-Century India
Author: Robert TraversPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139464167
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Robert Travers' analysis of British conquests in late eighteenth-century India shows how new ideas were formulated about the construction of empire. After the British East India Company conquered the vast province of Bengal, Britons confronted the apparent anomaly of a European trading company acting as an Indian ruler. Responding to a prolonged crisis of imperial legitimacy, British officials in Bengal tried to build their authority on the basis of an 'ancient constitution', supposedly discovered among the remnants of the declining Mughal Empire. In the search for an indigenous constitution, British political concepts were redeployed and redefined on the Indian frontier of empire, while stereotypes about 'oriental despotism' were challenged by the encounter with sophisticated Indian state forms. This highly original book uncovers a forgotten style of imperial state-building based on constitutional restoration, and in the process opens up new points of connection between British, imperial and South Asian history.
Author: History, Religion, and Culture
Author: Stefan ColliniPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521626385
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Modern British intellectual history has been a particularly flourishing field of enquiry in recent years, and these two tightly integrated volumes contain major new essays by almost all of its leading proponents. The contributors examine the history of British ideas over the past two centuries from a number of perspectives that together constitute a major new overview of the subject. History, Religion, and Culture begins with eighteenth-century historiography, especially Gibbon's Decline and Fall. It takes up different aspects of the place of religion in nineteenth-century cultural and political life, such as attitudes towards the native religions of India, the Victorian perception of Oliver Cromwell, and the religious sensibility of John Ruskin. Finally, in discussions which range up to the middle of the twentieth century, the volume explores relations between scientific ideas about change or development and assumptions about the nature and growth of the national community.