Download or read book Treason and the State written by D. Alan Orr and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-13 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study traces the transition of treason from a personal crime against the monarch to a modern crime against the impersonal state. It consists of four highly detailed case studies of major state treason trials in England beginning with that of Thomas Wentworth, first Earl of Strafford, in the spring of 1641 and ending with that of Charles Stuart, King of England, in January 1649. The book examines how these trials constituted practical contexts in which ideas of statehood and public authority legitimated courses of political action that might ordinarily be considered unlawful - or at least not within the compass of the foundational statute of Edward III. The ensuing narrative reveals how the events of the 1640s in England challenged existing conceptions of treason as a personal crime against the king, his family and his servants, and pushed the ascendant parliamentarian faction towards embracing an impersonal conception of the state that perceived public authority as completely independent of any individual or group.
Download or read book No Standing Armies written by Lois G. Schwoerer and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1974. In her study of primary materials in England and the United States, Schwoerer traces the origin, development, and articulation in both Parliament and in the popular press of the attitude opposing standing armies in seventeenth-century England and the American colonies. Central to the criticism of armies at that time was the conviction that ultimate military power should be vested in Parliament, not the Crown. Schwoerer shows how the many diverse elements of England's antimilitarism, including political principle, propaganda, parliamentary tactics, parochialism, and partisanship, hardened with every confrontation between the Crown or Protector and Parliament. The author finds a general predisposition to distrust professional soldiers early in the century, and from the 1620s onward she notes opposition to a standing army in times of peace. Highlighting the growth of the antimilitary tradition, Schwoerer traces the development of this attitude from the Petition of Right in 1628 to the 1641–1642 crisis over the Militia Bill/Ordinance, the military settlements of 1660 and 1689, and the climactic events of 1667–1699. Schwoerer shows how the anti-standing-army ideology affected the constitutional thinking of the American colonists and manifested itself in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. She addresses timeless questions of how to provide for a nation's defense while preserving individual liberty, citizen responsibility for military service, and the relationship of executive and legislative authority over the army.
Download or read book A Selection from the English Prose Works of John Milton written by John Milton and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Library of the Late H Buxton Forman The Anderson Galleries New York written by Harry Buxton Forman and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Poetical Works of John Milton written by John Milton and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire written by Clifford Ando and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roman empire remains unique. Although Rome claimed to rule the world, it did not. Rather, its uniqueness stems from the culture it created and the loyalty it inspired across an area that stretched from the Tyne to the Euphrates. Moreover, the empire created this culture with a bureaucracy smaller than that of a typical late-twentieth-century research university. In approaching this problem, Clifford Ando does not ask the ever-fashionable question, Why did the Roman empire fall? Rather, he asks, Why did the empire last so long? Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire argues that the longevity of the empire rested not on Roman military power but on a gradually realized consensus that Roman rule was justified. This consensus was itself the product of a complex conversation between the central government and its far-flung peripheries. Ando investigates the mechanisms that sustained this conversation, explores its contribution to the legitimation of Roman power, and reveals as its product the provincial absorption of the forms and content of Roman political and legal discourse. Throughout, his sophisticated and subtle reading is informed by current thinking on social formation by theorists such as Max Weber, Jürgen Habermas, and Pierre Bourdieu.
Download or read book The Library of the Late H Buxton Forman written by Harry Buxton Forman and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Catalogue of a Unique Collection of Upwards of Twenty six Thousand Ancient and Modern Tracts and Pamphlets Collected and Arranged by J R Smith written by John Russell Smith and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A catalogue of a collection of upwards of twenty six thousand ancient and modern tracts and pamphlets collected and arranged by John Russell Smith On sale written by Alfred Russell Smith and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bibliographer s Manual of English Literature written by William Thomas Lowndes and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Third and Final Series of Bibliographical Collections and Notes on Early English Literature 1474 1700 written by William Carew Hazlitt and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Paradise lost books I II v 2 Paradise lost cont Remarks of various criticks upon the poem Mr Boyd s Observations on the characters of the fallen angels Plans of Paradise lost as a tragedy Lander s Interpolations v 3 Paradise regained Samson Agonistes Lycidas L Allegro Il Penseroso v 4 Arcades Comus Sonnets Odes Miscellanies Elegiarium liber Epigrammatum liber Silvarum liber written by John Milton and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bibliographer s Manual of English Literature Containing an Account of Rare Curious and Useful Books Published in Or Relating to Great Britain and Ireland from the Invention of Printing with Bibliographical and Critical Notices Collations of the Rarer Articles and the Prices at which They Have Been Sold in the Present Century by William Thomas Lowndes written by and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Most Extensive Valuable and Truly Interesting Collection of Curious Books Now Offered by Thomas Thorpe Etc written by Thomas Thorpe (Bookseller, of Bedford Street, Covent Garden.) and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
