Author: Philip Woodfine
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 9780861932306
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
`The War of Jenkins Ear' examined for the first time in a full-length study, looking at the vitality of popular politics and the inner workings of Parliament during the time. This first full-length study of the 1739 war with Spain, the so-called `War of Jenkins' Ear', looks at both the Spanish and the British side of disputes arising from illicit British trading in the Spanish ports of the Caribbean and the sometimes brutal depredations committed by the Spanish ships licensed to suppress it. It considers the domestic contexts in both countries, including the pressures which bore upon unpopular monarchs and their ministers; in particular, the author demonstrates the vigour with which opposition newspapers vaunted the heritage of British naval power: if ministers only had the political will, it was supposed, Britannia's glories would be revived and she would humble the cowardly popish foreigners of Spain and France. In examining foreign policy in the closing years of the long-lived Walpole ministry, light is also shed on the inner workings of `high politics', and new evidence offered on the development of the cabinet and the important role played by George II. The author concludes that the breakdown of complex and delicate Anglo-Spanish negotiations over the American trade was due not just to British popular outcry over Jenkins' ear but had a variety of causes, including entrenched national principles, and the interplay of individual personalities. Dr PHILIP WOODFINE teaches in the Department of Humanities at the University ofHuddersfield.
Britannia's Glories
Author: Philip Woodfine
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 9780861932306
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
`The War of Jenkins Ear' examined for the first time in a full-length study, looking at the vitality of popular politics and the inner workings of Parliament during the time. This first full-length study of the 1739 war with Spain, the so-called `War of Jenkins' Ear', looks at both the Spanish and the British side of disputes arising from illicit British trading in the Spanish ports of the Caribbean and the sometimes brutal depredations committed by the Spanish ships licensed to suppress it. It considers the domestic contexts in both countries, including the pressures which bore upon unpopular monarchs and their ministers; in particular, the author demonstrates the vigour with which opposition newspapers vaunted the heritage of British naval power: if ministers only had the political will, it was supposed, Britannia's glories would be revived and she would humble the cowardly popish foreigners of Spain and France. In examining foreign policy in the closing years of the long-lived Walpole ministry, light is also shed on the inner workings of `high politics', and new evidence offered on the development of the cabinet and the important role played by George II. The author concludes that the breakdown of complex and delicate Anglo-Spanish negotiations over the American trade was due not just to British popular outcry over Jenkins' ear but had a variety of causes, including entrenched national principles, and the interplay of individual personalities. Dr PHILIP WOODFINE teaches in the Department of Humanities at the University ofHuddersfield.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 9780861932306
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
`The War of Jenkins Ear' examined for the first time in a full-length study, looking at the vitality of popular politics and the inner workings of Parliament during the time. This first full-length study of the 1739 war with Spain, the so-called `War of Jenkins' Ear', looks at both the Spanish and the British side of disputes arising from illicit British trading in the Spanish ports of the Caribbean and the sometimes brutal depredations committed by the Spanish ships licensed to suppress it. It considers the domestic contexts in both countries, including the pressures which bore upon unpopular monarchs and their ministers; in particular, the author demonstrates the vigour with which opposition newspapers vaunted the heritage of British naval power: if ministers only had the political will, it was supposed, Britannia's glories would be revived and she would humble the cowardly popish foreigners of Spain and France. In examining foreign policy in the closing years of the long-lived Walpole ministry, light is also shed on the inner workings of `high politics', and new evidence offered on the development of the cabinet and the important role played by George II. The author concludes that the breakdown of complex and delicate Anglo-Spanish negotiations over the American trade was due not just to British popular outcry over Jenkins' ear but had a variety of causes, including entrenched national principles, and the interplay of individual personalities. Dr PHILIP WOODFINE teaches in the Department of Humanities at the University ofHuddersfield.
Britannia's Glory
Author: Emily Hamer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474292801
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This title traces the lives of individual lesbians against the background of the politics and history of the 20th century, and shows the infinite variety of ways in which lesbians made their lives in Britain. This history has relevance to contemporary life and politics within the lesbian community. British lesbians have a long tradition of diversity, of action, of success and of pride, which is documented here.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474292801
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This title traces the lives of individual lesbians against the background of the politics and history of the 20th century, and shows the infinite variety of ways in which lesbians made their lives in Britain. This history has relevance to contemporary life and politics within the lesbian community. British lesbians have a long tradition of diversity, of action, of success and of pride, which is documented here.
The Royal Invitation: Or, Britannia's Glory. A Poem. By W.M. ...
British Imperialism in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Sir Gerald Berkeley Hurst
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Real Britannia
Author: Colin Brown
Publisher: One World
ISBN: 9781780742311
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Publisher: One World
ISBN: 9781780742311
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Britannia's Glory
Author: Ramboro Books
Publisher:
ISBN: 9787215992320
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9787215992320
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Magazine of History with Notes and Queries
The Magazine of History
The Warrior's Swimming Book, and Ladies'Guide; Including the Poem on Waterloo, Queen Victoria's Reign, Death of the Duke of Wellington, Etc
Author: Paulin Huggett PEARCE
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature
Author: David Scott Kastan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : British literature
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Volume 4: Modernism - Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : British literature
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Volume 4: Modernism - Percy Bysshe Shelley.