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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
The Year-book of the Scientific and Learned Societies of Great Britain and Ireland
Author: The International Genealogical Directory
Author: The Illustrated Archaeologist
Author: Scientific and Learned Societies of Great Britain
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Category : Learned institutions and societies
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Imprinting Britain
Author: Michael EamonPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773583033
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Printing presses were instrumental in creating and upholding a sense of community during the eighteenth century. While the importance of print in the development of colonial America and the nascent United States is well-established, Imprinting Britain extends the historical discussion northward to explore the dynamic and interrelated world of newspapers, coffee houses, and theatre in the British imperial capitals of Halifax and Quebec City. Michael Eamon describes how an English-language colonial community coalesced around the printed word, establishing public spaces for colonists to propose, debate, and define their visions of an ideal society. Whereas American newspapers functioned as incubators of republican and revolutionary thought, their British North American counterparts featured a moderate discourse that rejected republicanism, favoured civic engagement, advocated liberty with propriety, extolled democracy under monarchy, promoted reason over superstition, and encouraged social criticism without revolution. The press also safeguarded against the uncertainties of colonial life by providing a steady stream of transatlantic news, literature, and fashion that helped construct a sense of Britishness in an environment rife with mixed loyalties. Imprinting Britain is the story of communities that turned to the press for a canon of British norms, literary touchstones, and Enlightenment-inspired ideas, which offered a blueprint for colonial growth and a sense of stability in an ever-changing, transatlantic milieu.
Official Year-book of the Scientific and Learned Societies of Great Britain and Ireland
Author: An Account of an Elizabethan Family
Author: Cassandra Willoughby Brydges Duchess of ChandosPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108492517
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
This volume is an invaluable portrait of family, kinship, regional and national dynamics in the Tudor and early Stuart period. Based on letters and papers that Cassandra Willoughby found in the family library, her Account focuses on the women of the family, and offers insight into sixteenth-century family dynamics, gentry culture and court connections.
The Lancet London
Author: The Lancet
Author: Documents on Conservative Foreign Policy, 1852-1878
Author: Geoff HicksPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107035929
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
The first edited collection of primary, documentary material pertaining to Conservative governments' foreign policy between 1852 and 1878.