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Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 62
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The Detector Detected: Or, the Danger to which Our Constitution Now Lies Exposed
Author: The Detector Detected: Or, the Danger to which Our Constitution Now Lies Exposed
Author: DETECTOR.Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 84
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Aristocratic Century
Author: John CannonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521335669
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Since the work of Butterfield and Namier in the 1930s, it has commonly been said that eighteenth-century England appears atomised, left with no overall interpretation. Subsequent work on religious differences and on party strife served to reinforce the image of a divided society, and in the last ten years historians of the poor and unprivileged have suggested that beneath the surface lurked substantial popular discontent. Professor Cannon uses his 1982 Wiles Lecture to offer a different interpretation - that the widespread acceptance of aristocratic values and aristocratic leadership gave a remarkable intellectual, political and social coherence to the century. He traces the recovery made by the aristocracy from its decade in 1649 when the House of Lords was abolished as useless and dangerous. After the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the peerage re-established its hold on government and society. Professor Cannon is forced to challenge some of the most cherished beliefs of English historiography - that Hanoverian society, at its top level, was an open elite, continually replenished by vigorous recruits from other groups and classes. He suggests that, on the contrary, in some respects the English peerage was more exclusive than many of its continental counterparts and that the openness was a myth which itself served a potent political purpose. Of the prospering burgeoisie, he argues that the remarkable thing was not their assertiveness but their long acquiescence in patrician rule, and he poses the paradox of a country increasingly dominated by a landed aristocracy giving birth to the first industrial revolution. His final chapter discusses the ideological under-pinning which made aristocratic supremacy acceptable for so long, and the emergence of those forces and ideals which were ultimately to replace it.
Hanover and the British Empire, 1700-1837
Author: Nick HardingPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 184383300X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
A reappraisal of the links between Hanover and Great Britain, highlighting their previously un-explored importance.
Bibliotheca Lindesiana ...
Author: James Ludovic Lindsay Earl of CrawfordPublisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1378
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Edmund Burke
Author: Iain Hampsher-MonkPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351941682
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 507
Book Description
Edmund Burke’s iconic stance against the French Revolution and its supposed Enlightenment inspiration, has ensured his central role in debates about the nature of modernity and freedom. It has now been rendered even more complex by post-modern radicalism’s repudiation of the Enlightenment as repressive and its reason as illusionary. Not only did Burke’s own work cover a huge range - from aesthetics through history to constitutional politics and political theory - it has generated an enormous literature drawing on many disciplines, as well as continuing to be recruited in a range of contemporary polemics. In Edmund Burke, Iain Hampsher Monk presents a representative selection of articles and essays from the last 50 years of this scholarship. His introduction provides a brief biography and seeks to guide the reader through the chosen pieces as well as indicating its relationship to other and more substantial studies that form the critical heritage of this major figure.
A Catalogue of the Library of the London Institution: The tracts and pamphlets [A-Fyson
Author: London Institution. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Library of the London Institution: Systematically Classed. Preceded by an Historical and Bibliographical Account of the Establishment. [Compiled by William Upcott, Richard Thomson and Edward W. Brayley.]
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Author: London Institution (London)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
A Catalogue of Books Chiefly Relating to English and American History and Antiquities
Author: McGill University. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
A catalogue of books, chiefly relating to English and American history and antiquities ... presented to the University of McGill college, Montreal, by Peter Redpath, esq
Author: Montreal McGill univ, librPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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