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Book Revisiting The Polite and Commercial People

Download or read book Revisiting The Polite and Commercial People written by Elaine Chalus and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-31 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For some time before his death in July 2015, former colleagues and students of Paul Langford had discussed the possibility of organising a festschrift to celebrate his remarkable contribution to eighteenth-century history. It was planned for 2019 to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the appearance of his seminal A Polite and Commercial People, the opening volume in the New Oxford History of England series, Paul's best-known and most influential publication. He was delighted to hear of these plans and the tragic news of his death only made the contributors more determined to see the project through to completion. The importance of A Polite and Commercial People within its own time is unquestionable. Not only did it provide a powerful new vision of eighteenth-century Britain, but it also played a vital part in reviving interest in, and expanding ways of thinking about, Georgian history. As the thirteen contributors to this volume amply testify, any review of the field from the 1980s onwards cannot ignore the profound effect Paul's research had on the social and political publications in his field. This collection of essays combines reflection on the impact of Paul's work with further engagement with the central questions he posed. In particular, it serves to re-connect various recent avenues of Georgian studies, bringing together diverse themes present in Paul's scholarship, but which are often studied independently of each other. As such, it aims to provide a fitting tribute to Paul's work and impact, and a wider reassessment of the current direction of eighteenth-century studies.

Book American Enlightenments

    Book Details:
  • Author : Caroline Winterer
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2016-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300192576
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book American Enlightenments written by Caroline Winterer and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z

Book Liverpool and Transatlantic Slavery

Download or read book Liverpool and Transatlantic Slavery written by David Richardson and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Britain’s dominant port for the slave trade in the eighteenth century, Liverpool is crucial to the study of slavery. And as the engine behind Liverpool’s rapid growth and prosperity, slavery left an indelible mark on the history of the city. This collection of essays, boasting an international roster of leading scholars in the field, sets Liverpool in the wider context of transatlantic slavery. The contributors tackle a range of issues, including African agency, slave merchants and their society, and the abolitionist movement, always with an emphasis on the human impact of slavery.

Book Soundings in Atlantic History

Download or read book Soundings in Atlantic History written by Bernard Bailyn and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-19 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These innovative essays probe the underlying unities that bound the early modern Atlantic world into a regional whole and trace some of the intellectual currents that flowed through the lives of the people of the four continents. Drawn together in a comprehensive Introduction by Bernard Bailyn, the essays include analyses of the climate and ecology that underlay the slave trade, pan-Atlantic networks of religion and of commerce, legal and illegal, inter-ethnic collaboration in the development of tropical medicine, science as a product of imperial relations, the Protestant international that linked Boston and pietist Germany, and the awareness and meaning of the Atlantic world in the mind of that preeminent intellectual and percipient observer, David Hume. In his Introduction, Bailyn explains that the Atlantic world was never self-enclosed or isolated from the rest of the globe but suggests that experiences in the early modern Atlantic region were distinctive in ways that shaped the course of world history.

Book Tacky   s Revolt

    Book Details:
  • Author : Vincent Brown
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2020-01-14
  • ISBN : 0674242092
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book Tacky s Revolt written by Vincent Brown and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner of the Elsa Goveia Book Prize Winner of the James A. Rawley Prize in the History of Race Relations Winner of the P. Sterling Stuckey Book Prize Winner of the Harriet Tubman Prize Winner of the Phillis Wheatley Book Award Finalist for the Cundill Prize “Brilliant...groundbreaking...Brown’s profound analysis and revolutionary vision of the Age of Slave War—from the too-often overlooked Tacky’s Revolt to the better-known Haitian Revolution—gives us an original view of the birth of modern freedom in the New World.” —Cornel West “Not only a story of the insurrection, but ‘a martial geography of Atlantic slavery,’ vividly demonstrating how warfare shaped every aspect of bondage...Forty years after Tacky’s defeat, new arrivals from Africa were still hearing about the daring rebels who upended the island.” —Harper’s “A sobering read for contemporary audiences in countries engaged in forever wars...It is also a useful reminder that the distinction between victory and defeat, when it comes to insurgencies, is often fleeting: Tacky may have lost his battle, but the enslaved did eventually win the war.” —New Yorker In the second half of the eighteenth century, as European imperial conflicts extended their domain, warring African factions fed their captives to the transatlantic slave trade while masters struggled to keep their restive slaves under the yoke. In this contentious atmosphere, a movement of enslaved West Africans in Jamaica organized to throw off that yoke by violence. Their uprising—which became known as Tacky’s Revolt—featured a style of fighting increasingly familiar today: scattered militias opposing great powers, with fighters hard to distinguish from noncombatants. Even after it was put down, the insurgency rumbled throughout the British Empire at a time when slavery seemed the dependable bedrock of its dominion. That certitude would never be the same, nor would the views of black lives, which came to inspire both more fear and more sympathy than before. Tracing the roots, routes, and reverberations of this event, Tacky’s Revolt expands our understanding of the relationship between European, African, and American history as it speaks to our understanding of wars of terror today.

Book Annual Bulletin of Historical Literature

Download or read book Annual Bulletin of Historical Literature written by Historical Association (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly

Download or read book The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly written by South Carolina. General Assembly. Commons House and published by University of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The William and Mary Quarterly

Download or read book The William and Mary Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The William and Mary Quarterly

Download or read book The William and Mary Quarterly written by Richard Lee Morton and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publishes refereed scholarship in history and related disciplines from initial Old World-New World contacts to the early nineteenth century and beyond. Its articles, notes and documents, and reviews range from British North America and the United States to Europe, West Africa, the Caribbean, and the Spanish American borderlands. Forums and topical issues address topics of active interest in the field.

Book University of Michigan Publications

Download or read book University of Michigan Publications written by and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society

Download or read book Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society written by Nova Scotia Historical Society, Halifax and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations

Download or read book Journal of the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations written by Great Britain. Board of Trade and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Oxford Dictionary of National Biography  Box Browell

Download or read book Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Box Browell written by Henry Colin Gray Matthew and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 55,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2002.

Book Best Books

Download or read book Best Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Antecedents and Beginnings to 1801

Download or read book Antecedents and Beginnings to 1801 written by Julius Goebel (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: