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Book A New Britannia in the Southern Seas

Download or read book A New Britannia in the Southern Seas written by Eric Dudley Butler and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A New Britannia

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  • Author : Humphrey McQueen
  • Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780702234392
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book A New Britannia written by Humphrey McQueen and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humphrey McQueen's new edition of his irreverent classic charts the origins of the Australian Labor Party. In tracing the social forces which produced the ALP, he shows it was anti-socialist from the very start.

Book New Britannia

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  • Author : Alan James
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2012-12-29
  • ISBN : 1300542926
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book New Britannia written by Alan James and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-12-29 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1788 Britain founded a tiny new colony half a world away. For the next two centuries millions of young men and women from all over the British Isles - but mostly from England - settled in Australia. They brought with them the best traditions of the "mother country", believing that their manifest destiny was to create a new and better Britannia. Yet for the last forty years the cultural fire that these young pioneers carried with them from the British Isles hearth has been assailed from all sides. Whether Anglo-Australia eventually survives or succumbs, its fate may well be a microcosm of what awaits the rest of the British diaspora.

Book Britannia 1066 1884

Download or read book Britannia 1066 1884 written by Charles K. Rowley and published by Springer Science & Business. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an analytic history of Britannia (first England and Wales and then Great Britain) over eight hundred years of political turmoil, intermingled with economic stagnation, followed by the engine of the industrial revolution. The book draws on economics, political science, public choice, philosophy and the law to probe in depth into the evolution of Britannia from an impoverished feudal and then post-feudal autocracy into a constitutional monarchy with limited suffrage that provided the fulcrum for industrial and commercial success, making Britannia, by 1884, the richest nation, per capita, on the planet. The book challenges head-on the Whiggist liberal notion of Macaulay and Trevelyan that the path from oppression to freedom was one of unimpeded progress. Among its novel features, the book draws upon the dictator’s handbook, as modeled by Bueno de Mesquita and Alistair Smith to evaluate the period of varying autocracy, 1066-1688. The book draws upon modern public choice theory and legal history to evaluate the fragile, corrupt constitutional monarchy that oversaw the initial phase of post-Glorious Revolution Britannia, 1689-1775. At each stage, the philosophical battle between those who sought order and unity and those who sought individual liberty is meticulously outlined. The book draws on the contributions of the Scottish Enlightenment (Hume, Ferguson and Smith) and of classical liberal philosophy (John Stuart Mill) to explain the final vault of Britannia from a weak and corrupt to a robust and admired constitutional monarchy grounded on the rule of law, over the period 1776-1884.

Book Flight

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1926
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 706 pages

Download or read book Flight written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Worlds of Difference

Download or read book Worlds of Difference written by Said Arjomand and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2013-08-22 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can differences be understood in social theory through comparisons, and how should social theory relate to regional studies to do so? This question has been prevalent within the sociological field for over a century, but is becoming increasingly important in a globalised age in which cultural borders are constantly challenged and rapidly changing. In this collection, Arjomand and Reis illuminate the importance of exploring spatial, cultural and intellectual differences beyond generalizations, attempting to understand diversity in itself as it takes shape across the world. With contributions from internationally renowned scholars, and a focussed emphasis upon sociological key themes such as modernization, citizenship, human rights, inequality and domination, this title provides a rich and convincing discussion that will add significant value to the ongoing debate about alternative modernities, diversity and change within the social sciences. Worlds of Difference constitutes an important and timely collection that will be of great inspiration for students and scholars alike.

Book When the Waves Ruled Britannia

Download or read book When the Waves Ruled Britannia written by Jonathan Scott and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-24 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did a rural and agrarian English society transform itself into a mercantile and maritime state? What role was played by war and the need for military security? How did geographical ideas inform the construction of English – and then British – political identities? Focusing upon the deployment of geographical imagery and arguments for political purposes, Jonathan Scott's ambitious and interdisciplinary study traces the development of the idea of Britain as an island nation, state and then empire from 1500 to 1800, through literature, philosophy, history, geography and travel writing. One argument advanced in the process concerns the maritime origins, nature and consequences of the English revolution. This is the first general study to examine changing geographical languages in early modern British politics, in an imperial, European and global context. Offering a new perspective on the nature of early modern Britain, it will be essential reading for students and scholars of the period.

Book The Chautauquan

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1899
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 668 pages

Download or read book The Chautauquan written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Britannia Major

Download or read book Britannia Major written by and published by . This book was released on 1732 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Sea Or Pacific Ocean   Illustrated with Charts  To the year 1723  including a history of the buccaneers of America

Download or read book A Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Sea Or Pacific Ocean Illustrated with Charts To the year 1723 including a history of the buccaneers of America written by James Burney and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shipowners investing in the South Sea Whale Fishery from Britain  1775 1815

Download or read book Shipowners investing in the South Sea Whale Fishery from Britain 1775 1815 written by Jane M. Clayton and Charles A. Clayton and published by Jane M Clayton . This book was released on 2016-03-18 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reference book providing a snapshot of the life histories of more than fifty shipowners investing in the South Sea Whale Fishery over a forty year period. It gives details of their places of business, the number of whaling ships they owned and biographical information about their commercial dealings and personal lives. A map of London showing the River Thames and the location of the businesses of the majority of these shipowners is enclosed.

Book Britannia s Glories

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  • Author : Philip Woodfine
  • Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780861932306
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book Britannia s Glories written by Philip Woodfine and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1998 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `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.

Book A South Sea Saga

Download or read book A South Sea Saga written by S. H. Strong and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Journal of Education

Download or read book The Journal of Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Narrative of Four Voyages to the South Sea  North and South Pacific Ocean  Chinese Sea  Ethiopic and Southern Atlantic Ocean  Indian and Antarctic Ocean  from the Year 1822 to 1831

Download or read book A Narrative of Four Voyages to the South Sea North and South Pacific Ocean Chinese Sea Ethiopic and Southern Atlantic Ocean Indian and Antarctic Ocean from the Year 1822 to 1831 written by Benjamin Morrell and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: