Author: Edmund BurkePublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 614
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke
Author: Edmund BurkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 614
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Writings and Speeches
Author: Edmund BurkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Collected in Three Volumes. ...
Author: Edmund BurkePublisher: London : Printed for F.C. and J. Rivington
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 672
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Mercy and British Culture, 1760-1960
Author: James GregoryPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350142603
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Spanning over 2 centuries, James Gregory's Mercy and British Culture, 1760 -1960 provides a wide-reaching yet detailed overview of the concept of mercy in British cultural history. While there are many histories of justice and punishment, mercy has been a neglected element despite recognition as an important feature of the 18th-century criminal code. Mercy and British Culture, 1760-1960 looks first at mercy's religious and philosophical aspects, its cultural representations and its embodiment. It then looks at large-scale mobilisation of mercy discourses in Ireland, during the French Revolution, in the British empire, and in warfare from the American war of independence to the First World War. This study concludes by examining mercy's place in a twentieth century shaped by total war, atomic bomb, and decolonisation.
Principles and Agents
Author: David RichardsonPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300262906
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
A new history of the abolition of the British slave trade “Easily the most scholarly, clear and persuasive analysis yet published of the rise to dominance of the British in the Atlantic slave trade—as well as the implementation of abolition when that dominance was its peak.”—David Eltis, co-author of Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade Parliament’s decision in 1807 to outlaw British slaving was a key moment in modern world history. In this magisterial work, historian David Richardson challenges claims that this event was largely due to the actions of particular individuals and emphasizes instead that abolition of the British slave trade relied on the power of ordinary people to change the world. British slaving and opposition to it grew in parallel through the 1760s and then increasingly came into conflict both in the public imagination and in political discourse. Looking at the ideological tensions between Britons’ sense of themselves as free people and their willingness to enslave Africans abroad, Richardson shows that from the 1770s those simmering tensions became politicized even as British slaving activities reached unprecedented levels, mobilizing public opinion to coerce Parliament to confront and begin to resolve the issue between 1788 and 1807.
The Eighteenth Century
Author: Publisher: Primary Source Microfilm
ISBN: 9780892351527
Category : Early printed books
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
A Bibliography of Edmund Burke
Author: William Burton ToddThe Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke
Author: Edmund BurkePublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison
Author: Joseph AddisonThe English Cyclopædia
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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