Author: George Isaac HuntingfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sermons, English
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
A Sermon Preached Before the Honourable House of Commons, at the Church of St. Margaret, Westminster, on Friday, April 19, 1793:
Author: George Isaac HuntingfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sermons, English
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
The French Revolution and British Popular Politics
Author: Mark PhilpPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521890939
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The nine essays in this collection focus on the dynamics of British popular politics in the 1790s and on the impact of the French Revolution and the subsequent war with France. Leading scholars in the field explore the nature and origins of the ideological conflicts between reformers and loyalists, the impact of the war with France on the organisation of the British state and on its relations with its people, and the extent of the threat of revolution on both British and colonial territory. The French Revolution and British Popular Politics makes an unusually integrated and coherent collection of essays, substantially advancing knowledge in this controversial area and bringing together important work by senior figures in the field.
Imagining the King's Death
Author: John BarrellPublisher:
ISBN: 9780198112921
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
It is high treason in British law to imagine the king's death. But after the execution of Louis XVI in 1793, everyone in Britain must have found themselves imagining that the same fate might befall George III. How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George and imagining it, in the legal sense of intending or designing? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the controversies they generated. He shows how the law of treason was adapted in the years following Louis's death to punish what was acknowledged to be a "modern" form of treason unheard of when the law had been framed. The result, he argues, was the invention of a new and imaginary reading, a "figurative" treason, by which the question of who was imagining the king's death, the supposed traitors or those who charged them with treason, became inseparable.
The New Annual Register, Or, General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature for the Year ...
Author: The Analytical Review, Or History of Literature, Domestic and Foreign, on an Enlarged Plan
Author: The New Annual Register
Author: Analytical Review
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Containing scientific abstracts of important and interesting works, published in English; a general account of such as are of less consequence, with short characters, notices, or reviews of valuable foreign books; criticisms on new pieces of music and works of art; and the literary intelligence of Europe, etc.
Bibliotheca Lindesiana ...
Author: James Ludovic Lindsay Earl of CrawfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1572
Book Description
The Eighteenth Century
Author: A War of Ideas
Author: Emma Vincent MacleodPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429841906
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The responses of British people to the French Revolution has recently received considerable attention from historians. British commentators often expressed a sense of the novelty and scale of European wars which followed, yet their views on this conflict have not yet attracted such thorough examination. This book offers a wide-ranging exploration of the attitudes of various groups of British people to the conflict during the 1790’s: the Government, their supporters and their opponents inside and outside Parliament, women, churchmen, and the broad mass of British public opinion. It presents the debate in England and Scotland provoked by the war both as the sequel to the French Revolution and as a distinct debate in itself. Emma Vincent Macleod argues that contemporaries saw this conflict as one of the first since the wars of religion to be significantly shaped by ideological hostility rather than solely by a struggle over strategic interests.