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Book The Eighteenth Century

Download or read book The Eighteenth Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book God  Duty and Community in English Economic Life  1660 1720

Download or read book God Duty and Community in English Economic Life 1660 1720 written by Brodie Waddell and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of later Stuart economic culture that contributes significantly to our understanding of early modern society. The English economy underwent profound changes in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, yet the worldly affairs of ordinary people continued to be shaped as much by traditional ideals and moral codes as by material conditions.This book explores the economic implications of many of the era's key concepts, including Christian stewardship, divine providence, patriarchal power, paternal duty, local community, and collective identity. Brodie Waddell drawson a wide range of contemporary sources - from ballads and pamphlets to pauper petitions and guild regulations - to show that such ideas pervaded every aspect of social and economic relations during this crucial period. Previous discussions of English economic life have tended to ignore or dismiss the influence of cultural factors. By contrast, Waddell argues that popular beliefs about divine will, social duty and communal bonds remained the frame through which most people viewed vital 'earthly' concerns such as food marketing, labour relations, trade policy, poor relief, and many others. This innovative study, demonstrating both the vibrancy and the diversity of the 'moral economies' of the later Stuart period, represents a significant contribution to our understanding of early modern society. It will be essential reading for all early modern British economic and cultural historians. BrodieWaddell is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Cambridge. He has published on preaching, local government, the landscape and other aspects of early modern society.

Book Catalogue

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  • Author : Baker, G. A. & Co., Inc., Firm, Booksellers, New York
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1940
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 944 pages

Download or read book Catalogue written by Baker, G. A. & Co., Inc., Firm, Booksellers, New York and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book National Register of Microform Masters

Download or read book National Register of Microform Masters written by Library of Congress. Catalog Publication Division and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book National Register of Microform Masters

Download or read book National Register of Microform Masters written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality

Download or read book A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality written by Ralph Cudworth and published by . This book was released on 1731 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Design Manual for Roads and Bridges

Download or read book Design Manual for Roads and Bridges written by Highways England and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dated August 2021. Formerly GG 000 29-Jul-2021. Supersedes previous issue (ISBN 9780115540462)

Book The Registers of North Luffenham  in the County of Rutland  1572 1812

Download or read book The Registers of North Luffenham in the County of Rutland 1572 1812 written by North Luffenham, Eng. (Parish) and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sense of the People

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  • Author : Kathleen Wilson
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1995-07-28
  • ISBN : 9780521340724
  • Pages : 484 pages

Download or read book The Sense of the People written by Kathleen Wilson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-07-28 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1995, demonstrates the central role of 'people', the empire, and the citizen in eighteenth-century English popular politics. It shows how the wide-ranging political culture of English towns attuned ordinary men and women to the issues of state power and thus enabled them to stake their own claims in national and imperial affairs.

Book The Copernican Question

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  • Author : Robert Westman
  • Publisher : University of California Press
  • Release : 2020-04-21
  • ISBN : 0520355695
  • Pages : 702 pages

Download or read book The Copernican Question written by Robert Westman and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus publicly defended his hypothesis that the earth is a planet and the sun a body resting near the center of a finite universe. But why did Copernicus make this bold proposal? And why did it matter? The Copernican Question reframes this pivotal moment in the history of science, centering the story on a conflict over the credibility of astrology that erupted in Italy just as Copernicus arrived in 1496. Copernicus engendered enormous resistance when he sought to protect astrology by reconstituting its astronomical foundations. Robert S. Westman shows that efforts to answer the astrological skeptics became a crucial unifying theme of the early modern scientific movement. His interpretation of this long sixteenth century, from the 1490s to the 1610s, offers a new framework for understanding the great transformations in natural philosophy in the century that followed.

Book The Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis

Download or read book The Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis written by Antoninus Liberalis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These forty-one tales written in the second century AD by Greek author Antoninus Liberalis and translated from the Greek for the first time, offer an unusual insight into the preoccupations and legends of antiquity. These tales are quirky, exciting and sometimes disturbing. Many have relevance for modern as well as classical understanding of psychology and the imagination. Each story is usefully provided with full annotation and commentary.

Book A Historical and Genealogical Register of John Wing  of Sandwich  Mass

Download or read book A Historical and Genealogical Register of John Wing of Sandwich Mass written by Conway Phelps Wing and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Wing married Deborah Batchelder, and the family immigrated in 1632 from England to Sandwich, Massachusetts. Descendants and relatives lived in New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Wisconsin and elsewhere.

Book The Persistence of Empire

Download or read book The Persistence of Empire written by Eliga H. Gould and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Revolution was the longest colonial war in modern British history and Britain's most humiliating defeat as an imperial power. In this lively, concise book, Eliga Gould examines an important yet surprisingly understudied aspect of the conflict: the British public's predominantly loyal response to its government's actions in North America. Gould attributes British support for George III's American policies to a combination of factors, including growing isolationism in regard to the European continent and a burgeoning sense of the colonies as integral parts of a greater British nation. Most important, he argues, the British public accepted such ill-conceived projects as the Stamp Act because theirs was a sedentary, "armchair" patriotism based on paying others to fight their battles for them. This system of military finance made Parliament's attempt to tax the American colonists look unexceptional to most Britons and left the metropolitan public free to embrace imperial projects of all sorts--including those that ultimately drove the colonists to rebel. Drawing on nearly one thousand political pamphlets as well as on broadsides, private memoirs, and popular cartoons, Gould offers revealing insights into eighteenth-century British political culture and a refreshing account of what the Revolution meant to people on both sides of the Atlantic.

Book Rebellion and Savagery

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  • Author : Geoffrey Plank
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2015-06-30
  • ISBN : 0812207114
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book Rebellion and Savagery written by Geoffrey Plank and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1745, Charles Edward Stuart, the grandson of England's King James II, landed on the western coast of Scotland intending to overthrow George II and restore the Stuart family to the throne. He gathered thousands of supporters, and the insurrection he led—the Jacobite Rising of 1745—was a crisis not only for Britain but for the entire British Empire. Rebellion and Savagery examines the 1745 rising and its aftermath on an imperial scale. Charles Edward gained support from the clans of the Scottish Highlands, communities that had long been derided as primitive. In 1745 the Jacobite Highlanders were denigrated both as rebels and as savages, and this double stigma helped provoke and legitimate the violence of the government's anti-Jacobite campaigns. Though the colonies stayed relatively peaceful in 1745, the rising inspired fear of a global conspiracy among Jacobites and other suspect groups, including North America's purported savages. The defeat of the rising transformed the leader of the army, the Duke of Cumberland, into a popular hero on both sides of the Atlantic. With unprecedented support for the maintenance of peacetime forces, Cumberland deployed new garrisons in the Scottish Highlands and also in the Mediterranean and North America. In all these places his troops were engaged in similar missions: demanding loyalty from all local inhabitants and advancing the cause of British civilization. The recent crisis gave a sense of urgency to their efforts. Confident that "a free people cannot oppress," the leaders of the army became Britain's most powerful and uncompromising imperialists. Geoffrey Plank argues that the events of 1745 marked a turning point in the fortunes of the British Empire by creating a new political interest in favor of aggressive imperialism, and also by sparking discussion of how the British should promote market-based economic relations in order to integrate indigenous peoples within their empire. The spread of these new political ideas was facilitated by a large-scale migration of people involved in the rising from Britain to the colonies, beginning with hundreds of prisoners seized on the field of battle and continuing in subsequent years to include thousands of men, women and children. Some of the migrants were former Jacobites and others had stood against the insurrection. The event affected all the British domains.

Book Clanship to Crofters  War

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  • Author : T M Devine
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2018-02-28
  • ISBN : 1526130823
  • Pages : 277 pages

Download or read book Clanship to Crofters War written by T M Devine and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Received to wide acclaim when first published in the 1990s, this absorbing book remains one of the most important, influential and widely read histories of the Scottish Highlands from the end of the Jacobite Risings to the great crofters' rebellion of the 1880s. T. M. Devine argues that the Highlands in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw the wholesale transformation of a society at a pace without parallel anywhere else in western Europe. This is an important book for all those interested in the history of the Scottish Highlands and Islands, and for students and scholars of Scottish history, social history and rural society.

Book The Newton Handbook

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  • Author : Derek Gjertsen
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 1986-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780710202796
  • Pages : 665 pages

Download or read book The Newton Handbook written by Derek Gjertsen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Letters of Junius

Download or read book The Letters of Junius written by Junius and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: