Author: David OggPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
England in the Reign of Charles II.: Scotland and Ireland
Author: David OggPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
England in the Reign of Charles II
Author: David OggPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
England and Wales.- 2. Scotland and Ireland
Author: Edward PorrittThe Unreformed House of Commons: England and Wales.- 2. Scotland and Ireland
Author: Annie Gertrude PorrittPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
Paper Bullets
Author: Harold M. WeberPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813184886
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
The calculated use of media by those in power is a phenomenon dating back at least to the seventeenth century, as Harold Weber demonstrates in this illuminating study of the relation of print culture to kingship under England's Charles II. Seventeenth-century London witnessed an enormous expansion of the print trade, and with this expansion came a revolutionary change in the relation between political authority—especially the monarchy—and the printed word. Weber argues that Charles' reign was characterized by a particularly fluid relationship between print and power. The press helped bring about both the deconsecration of divine monarchy and the formation of a new public sphere, but these processes did not result in the progressive decay of royal authority. Charles fashioned his own semiotics of power out of the political transformations that had turned his world upside down. By linking diverse and unusual topics—the escape of Charles from Worcester, the royal ability to heal scrofula, the sexual escapades of the "merry monarch," and the trial and execution of Stephen College—Weber reveals the means by which Charles took advantage of a print industry instrumental to the creation of a new dispensation of power, one in which the state dominates the individual through the supplementary relationship between signs and violence. Weber's study brings into sharp relief the conflicts involving public authority and printed discourse, social hierarchy and print culture, and authorial identity and responsibility—conflicts that helped shape the modern state.
The Unreformed House of Commons: England and Wales.- 2. Scotland and Ireland
Author: Edward PorrittA Concise History of Great Britain
Author: David Churchill SomervellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The Cambridge Historical Encyclopedia of Great Britain and Ireland
Author: Christopher HaighPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521395526
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The history of Britain and Ireland is traditionally presented as a succession of dramatic changes, but in this reference work the 60 contributors under the editorship of Christopher Haigh have emphasized patterns of continuity instead, including cultural, social, political and economic themes. 300 illustrations.
The Later Stuarts, 1660-1714
Author: Sir George Norman ClarkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
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