Author: StatesmanPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
The Statesman's Mirrour; Or, Friendly Advice to a Certain Great Minister to Retire from Court
Author: StatesmanSir Robert Walpole's Poets
Author: Tone Sundt UrstadPublisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874136906
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
"During Sir Robert Walpole's term as "Prime Minister" exorbitant amounts of money were spent on propaganda in support of his administration. Since nearly all the major writers of the period adopted an anti-government stance, however, historians have shown far more interest in the organization and contents of opposition propaganda than in its pro-government counterpart. This book is the first comprehensive study of the literature published in support of Walpole's administration, and explores important pro-government themes, and also explains how the propaganda network was organized and what precisely the Old Corps Whig leadership hoped to achieve."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Corrupt Histories
Author: Emmanuel KreikePublisher: University Rochester Press
ISBN: 9781580461733
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Corruption is a preoccupation of governments and societies across place and time, from the 18th-19th Century British, Chinese, and Iberian empires to 20th Century Nazi Germany, Russia, the United States, and India. This study offers three different perspectives on corruption. The first chapters highlight corrupt practices, taking as a point of departure a technocratic definition of corruption. The second part of the book views corruption through the lens of discourses of corruption, revealing that accusations of corruption have been employed as tools, often in the context of contestations of power. The essays in the third part of the book treat corruption as a process, taking into account its causes and effects and their impact on society, economics, and politics. Contributors: Jeremy Adelman, Virginie Coulloudon, William Doyle, Diego Gambetta, Norman J. W. Goda, Robert Gregg, Michael Johnston, William Chester Jordan, Emmanuel Kreike, Vinod Pavarala, Dilip Simeon, Pierre-Etienne Will, David Witwer, Philip Woodfine William Chester Jordan is Professor of History at Princeton University; Emmanuel Kreike is Assistant Professor of African History and Director of the African Studies Program at Princeton University
JOURNALISTIC OPPOSITION TO THE ADMINISTRATION OF SIR ROBERT WALPOLE DURING THE YEARS 1727-1742
Author: ROBERT EMMETT CARSONPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1200
Book Description
The Cultural Politics of Opera, 1720-1742
Author: Thomas McGearyPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1837651698
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
Explores the intersection of the world of opera, literature and partisan politics to show how Italian opera was put to use in the 'culture wars' of the day. This last of a trilogy of books on opera and politics in Britain examines the cultural politics of opera during the ministerial reign of Sir Robert Walpole from 1720 to 1742. The book explores the intersection of the world of opera, literature, and partisan politics to show how Italian opera - with its associations with the court, ministry and Britain's social-political elite - was put to use in the 'culture wars' of the day: how Italian opera was used for partisan political advantage; how political work could be accomplished by means of opera. It shows that attacks on opera had ulterior targets. The book surveys a range of often overlooked verse and prints to show how critique or satire of opera were a means for oppositional writers to delegitimize the Walpole ministry. Polemicists framed opera as a consequence of the corruption, luxury and False Taste generated by Walpole's ministry. It closes in the watershed year 1742: Handel had produced the last of his Italian operas the previous year, Walpole fell from power, and Alexander Pope published the last book of his Dunciad project.
A Collection of Old and Rare Books of (with Some Exceptions) English Literature
Author: Pickering & ChattoPublisher:
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
A Collection of Old and Rare Books of ... English Literature ...
Author: Pickering & ChattoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1338
Book Description
Three Centuries of English Literature & History
Author: Maggs BrosPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Author: William Andrews Clark Memorial LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
Mercurius Britannicus
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description