Author: Arthur YoungPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
An argument against reform; in part an attack on Thomas Paine and Rights of Man.
An Enquiry Into the State of the Public Mind Amongst the Lower Classes: and on the Means of Turning it to the Welfare of the State. In a Letter to William Wilberforce, Esq. M.P. By Arthur Young, Esq. F.R.S.
Author: Arthur YoungPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
An argument against reform; in part an attack on Thomas Paine and Rights of Man.
An Enquiry Into the State of Public Mind Amongst the Lower Classes ... in a Letter to William Wilberforce
Author: Arthur YoungAn Enquiry Into the State of the Public Mind Amongst the Lower Classes
Author: Arthur YoungPublisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
ISBN: 9781385130285
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T212921 Half-title: 'A letter to Mr. Wilberforce.'. Dublin: printed for J. Moore, 1798. [2],37, [1]p.; 8°
Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Leslie StephenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Dictionary of National Biography: Wordsworth - Zuylestein
Author: The Dictionary of National Biography, Founded in 1882 by George Smith
Author: The Birth of a New Europe
Author: Theodore S. HamerowPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469619598
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
Between the conclusion of the Napoleonic Wars and the outbreak of the First World War, Europe underwent a transformation unparalleled in its history. No comparable degree of change had occurred on the Continent since the New Stone Age. Theodore Hamerow examines the innovations that challenged nineteenth-century Europe, using a perspective that transcends events that occurred within national boundaries. He brings together political, social, diplomatic, and national developments to demonstrate how they relate to the profound transformations brought about by the industrial revolution. Using a wealth of statistics and other documentation to buttress insightful generalizations, Hamerow broadly appraises the implications of the shift in Europe from an agricultural to an industrial society. Among the subjects he considers are the rise of the middle and working classes, the spread of literacy and the enfranchisement of the masses, the growth of urban centers of manufacture and trade, the acquisition of colonies, the spread of military technologies, and the changes in the functions of governments.
Saints in Politics
Author: Enrest Marshall HowsePublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487590326
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
This book gives a picture of an important religious reform group in action during the period of the French Revolution, Napoleon, and the Industrial Revolution. In this period of injustice and misery the British ruling classes, frightened by the excesses of the French Revolution, determined, at a time when economic life was changing at a rate unequalled for centuries, that existing laws and institutions should not change. And yet from this time came the moral, philanthropic, and religious ideas which transformed later England and resulted in the abolition of the slave trade, educational reforms in India, emancipation of Negroes in the British possessions, popular education and the growth of Sunday schools in England, reform of the whole penal and judicial system, industrial and parliamentary reform, and a new spirit of religious tolerance and philanthropy. The moving force in human progress at this epoch was a "brotherhood of Christian politicians" lampooned in Parliament, during their lifetime, as "the Saints" and remembered in history as "The Clapham Sect," led by Wilberforce. Dr. Howse brings together for the first time in this book material on all the activities of the Sect. He gives us sketches of members of the Set, their life as a group at home, and in the midst of their campaigns, where novel methods and ceaseless labour brought results out of all proportion to the size of the group.
Was Hinduism Invented?
Author: Brian K. PenningtonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190290374
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Drawing on a large body of previously untapped literature, including documents from the Church Missionary Society and Bengali newspapers, Brian Pennington offers a fascinating portrait of the process by which "Hinduism" came into being. He argues against the common idea that the modern construction of religion in colonial India was simply a fabrication of Western Orientalists and missionaries. Rather, he says, it involved the active agency and engagement of Indian authors as well, who interacted, argued, and responded to British authors over key religious issues such as image-worship, sati, tolerance, and conversion.
Burke, Paine, Godwin, and the Revolution Controversy
Author: Marilyn ButlerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521286565
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Analysis of the great Revolution debate of late eighteenth century England, inspired by the French Revolution, reveals how the passions of oppositional writers were sufficiently aroused to create a "pamphlet war."