Author: William ATWOOD (Chief Justice of New York.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Proposals for printing the Fundamental Constitution of the English Government, etc
Author: William ATWOOD (Chief Justice of New York.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Proposals for Printing the Fundamental Constitution of the English Government
Author: Proposals for Printing the Fundamental Constitution of the English Government
Author: William AtwoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Printing
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Proposals for Printing the Fundamental Constitution of the English Government
Author: William AtwoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Proposals for printing
Author: William AtwoodA Chronology and Calendar of Documents Relating to the London Book Trade 1641-1700
Author: Donald Francis McKenziePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199285587
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
The Chronology and Calendar of Documents relating to the London Book Trade 1641-1700 presents abstracts of documents relating to the book trade and book production between 1641 and 1700. It brings together in one sequence edited abstracts of entries referring to named books, printers, and booksellers selected from the manuscripts of the Stationers' Company Court Books; all references to printing, publishing, bookselling, and the book trade occurring in major historical printed sources (Calendar of State Papers Domestic; the Journals of the Houses of Lords and Commons; Reports of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts) ; and entries for contemporary pamphlets. The labour records of the printing and bookselling trades probably represent the fullest account of any work force in early modern England and the printed products of the trade survive in such great numbers that they enable us to examine them for evidence not only of who made and sold them but also of how they were made. These volumes constitute a reference work of importance not only for literature specialists, bibliographers, and historians of book production but also for economic, social, and political historians. Not only do they bring together records from a variety of separate printed sources, thereby making explicit their interconnections, but also they make accessible some less well-known manuscript sources, notably from the Stationers' Company archives. Most importantly the Chronology and Calendar extends the earlier work of Arber, Greg, and Jackson on the earlier seventeenth century. As a chronological sequence the volumes meet the need for a preliminary narrative history of the trade in the later seventeenth century; and the provision of title, name, and topic indexes renders this an indispensable reference tool for research into the social, political, and economic contexts of the book trade, its personnel, and its printed output.
The Revolution in Time
Author: Tony ClaydonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192549308
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Revolution in Time explores the idea that people in Western Europe changed the way they thought about the concept of time over the early modern period, by examining reactions to the 1688-1689 revolution in England. The study examines how those who lived through the extraordinary collapse of James II's regime perceived this event as it unfolded, and how they set it within their understanding of history. It questions whether a new understanding of chronology - one which allowed fundamental and human-directed change - had been widely adopted by this point in the past; and whether this might have allowed witnesses of the revolution to see it as the start of a new era, or as an opportunity to shape a novel, 'modern', future for England. It argues that, with important exceptions, the people of the era rejected dynamic views of time to retain a 'static' chronology that failed to fully conceptualise evolution in history. Bewildered by the rapid events of the revolution itself, people forced these into familiar scripts. Interpreting 1688-1689 later, they saw it as a reiteration of timeless principles of politics, or as a stage in an eternal and pre-determined struggle for true religion. Only slowly did they see come to see it as part of an evolving and modernising process - and then mainly in response to opponents of the revolution, who had theorised change in order to oppose it. The volume thus argues for a far more complex and ambiguous model of changes in chronological conception than many accounts have suggested; and questions whether 1688-1689 could be the leap toward modernity that recent interpretations have argued.
The Right to be King
Author: Howard NennerPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349129526
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
This book examines the theory and practice of the English monarchical succession from the end of Elizabeth's reign to the accession of George I. Tracing the transition from an uncertain rule to a crown in the disposal of parliament, Nenner focuses on the major routes to the throne over the long seventeenth century: hereditary right, conquest, and election. It is a study of the competing principles of parliamentary sovereignty and fundamental law, and the ways in which tension between dynastic expectations and national needs were addressed and resolved.
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British LibraryThe British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975
Author: British LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description