Author: Great Britain. ParliamentPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 746
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Cobbett's Parliamentary History of England: 1747-1753
Author: Great Britain. ParliamentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
Cobbett's Parliamentary History of England
Author: Cobbett's Parliamentary History of England
Author: William CobbettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 768
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Cobbett's Parliamentary History of England
Author: Great Britain. ParliamentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 736
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The Parliamentary History of England from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 742
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Includes information from the Norman conquest through the 1st session of the 2d Parliament.
The Politics of Empire at the Accession of George III
Author: James M. VaughnPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300240546
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
An important revisionist history that casts eighteenth-century British politics and imperial expansion in a new light. In this bold debut work, historian James M. Vaughn challenges the scholarly consensus that British India and the Second Empire were founded “in a fit of absence of mind.” He instead argues that the origins of the Raj and the largest empire of the modern world were rooted in political conflicts and movements in Britain. It was British conservatives who shaped the Second Empire into one of conquest and dominion, emphasizing the extraction of resources and the subjugation of colonial populations. Drawing on a wide array of sources, Vaughn shows how the East India Company was transformed from a corporation into an imperial power in the service of British political forces opposed to the rising radicalism of the period. The Company’s dominion in Bengal, where it raised territorial revenue and maintained a large army, was an autocratic bulwark of Britain’s established order. A major work of political and imperial history, this volume offers an important new understanding of the era and its global ramifications.
Victorians and Numbers
Author: Lawrence GoldmanPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192663410
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
A defining feature of nineteenth-century Britain was its fascination with statistics. The processes that made Victorian society, including the growth of population, the development of industry and commerce, and the increasing competence of the state, generated profuse numerical data. This is a study of how such data influenced every aspect of Victorian culture and thought, from the methods of natural science and the struggle against disease, to the development of social administration and the arguments and conflicts between social classes. Numbers were collected in the 1830s by newly-created statistical societies in response to this 'data revolution'. They became a regular aspect of governmental procedure thereafter, and inspired new ways of interrogating both the natural and social worlds. William Farr used them to study cholera; Florence Nightingale deployed them in campaigns for sanitary improvement; Charles Babbage was inspired to design and build his famous calculating engines to process them. The mid-Victorians employed statistics consistently to make the case for liberal reform. In later decades, however, the emergence of the academic discipline of mathematical statistics - statistics as we use them today - became associated with eugenics and a contrary social philosophy. Where earlier statisticians emphasised the unity of mankind, some later practitioners, following Francis Galton, studied variation and difference within and between groups. In chapters on learned societies, government departments, international statistical collaborations, and different Victorian statisticians, Victorians and Numbers traces the impact of numbers on the era and the intriguing relationship of Victorian statistics with 'Big Data' in our own age.
Cobbett's Parliamentary History of England from the Norman Conquest in 1066, to the Year 1803, from which Last-mentioned Epoch it is Continued Downwards in the Work Entitled, "Cobbett's Parliamentary Debates" ...
Author: Great Britain. ParliamentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Cobbett's Parliamentary Debates
Author: Great Britain. ParliamentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 744
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Catalogue of the Lilbrary of the United States Senate
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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