Author: Jonathan SwiftPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 456
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The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D. D.
Author: Jonathan SwiftThe Prose Works of Jonathan Swift
Author: Jonathan SwiftThe Prose Works of Jonathan Swift: Essays on the portraits of Swift, by Sir Frederick Falkiner, and on Swift and Stella, by the Very Rev. the Dean of St. Patrick's. Bibliography of Swift's works, by W. Spencer Jackson, and a general index, comp. by Constance Jacob
Author: Jonathan SwiftThe Prose Works of Jonathan Swift: Essays on the portraits of Swift, by Sir Frederick Falkiner, and on Swift and Stella, by the Very Rev. J.H. Bernard, the Dean of St. Patrick's. Bibliography of Swift's works, by W. Spencer Jackson, and a general index, comp. by Constance Jacob
Author: Jonathan SwiftThe Prose Works of Jonathan Swift: Contributions to "The Tatler," "The Examiner," "The Spectator," and "The Intelligencer."
Author: Jonathan SwiftMoney, Power, and Print
Author: Charles Ivar McGrathPublisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780874130270
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
"This collection gathers the expertise of scholars in several disciplines to examine the manner in which financial and economic arguments were expressed in pamphlets, broadsides, and longer works of literature in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and to assess to what extent the political realities of the day were informed by these debates or, alternatively, shaped by that rhetoric. The contributors to the volume draw upon an extensive variety of contemporary sources and modern analyses of the formative years of the financial revolution to reexamine many of the existing conventional ideas about the relationship between money, power, and print, and to suggest that the subject is far more complex and interrelated than most studies up to now have indicated. Particular attention is paid to the fact that the financial revolution did not occur in London in isolation from the various regions of the British Isles." "The essays address the question of how money, power, and print influenced the contemporary emergence of a radically different public finance structure in the British empire and how retrospective understanding of the results have influenced historical readings of the texts and the events. A number of contributions offer detailed analyses of particular moments or structures in the reshaping of the public financial sphere, such as the parliamentary and pamphlet debate over the establishment of the Bank of England and proposals for a land bank as an alternative. Other essays focus on broader themes illustrative of larger trends during the period, such as the Scottish support for an expedition to Madagascar to take advantage of presumed pirate treasure on the island."--BOOK JACKET.
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift
Author: Jonathan SwiftCatalogue of the General Assembly Library of New Zealand
Author: New Zealand. Parliament. LibraryPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Fear, Exclusion and Revolution
Author: Jason McElligottPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351936859
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Between the years 1677 and 1691 the Puritan minister Roger Morrice compiled an astonishingly detailed record of public affairs in Britain. Running to almost a million words his 'Entring Book' provides a unique record of late seventeenth-century political and religious history. It charts the rise of British party politics, and the transformation of Puritanism into 'Whiggery' and Dissent. It provides a wealth of information on social and cultural history, as well as the relationships between the three Stuart kingdoms. All the essays in this volume have been inspired by the key concerns of the Entring Book: the palpable sense of the fear and foreboding in the 1680s; the long shadow cast by the mid-century civil war; the profound effect on Englishmen of events on the continent; and the anxieties and opportunities caused by a socially diffuse culture of news and information. In so doing they give a vivid sense of what it was like to live in England in the years before the Revolution and help to explain why that Revolution took place when it did, and why it took the particular form that it did. These chapters provide fresh and insightful perspectives on religion, politics and culture from established and emerging scholars on three continents. Taken together they offer a valuable introduction to the world of Roger Morrice, and will be an essential companion to the scholarly edition of the Entring Book.
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