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Book Selected Speeches of the Rt  Honble  John Bright  M P   on Public Questions

Download or read book Selected Speeches of the Rt Honble John Bright M P on Public Questions written by John Bright and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Political Thought of John Bright

Download or read book The Political Thought of John Bright written by Charles Rush Layton and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 1122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Selected Speeches of the Rt  Honble  John Bright  M P   on Public Questions

Download or read book Selected Speeches of the Rt Honble John Bright M P on Public Questions written by John Bright and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Alibis of Empire

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  • Author : Karuna Mantena
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2010-01-18
  • ISBN : 1400835070
  • Pages : 281 pages

Download or read book Alibis of Empire written by Karuna Mantena and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-18 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alibis of Empire presents a novel account of the origins, substance, and afterlife of late imperial ideology. Karuna Mantena challenges the idea that Victorian empire was primarily legitimated by liberal notions of progress and civilization. In fact, as the British Empire gained its farthest reach, its ideology was being dramatically transformed by a self-conscious rejection of the liberal model. The collapse of liberal imperialism enabled a new culturalism that stressed the dangers and difficulties of trying to "civilize" native peoples. And, hand in hand with this shift in thinking was a shift in practice toward models of indirect rule. As Mantena shows, the work of Victorian legal scholar Henry Maine was at the center of these momentous changes. Alibis of Empire examines how Maine's sociotheoretic model of "traditional" society laid the groundwork for the culturalist logic of late empire. In charting the movement from liberal idealism, through culturalist explanation, to retroactive alibi within nineteenth-century British imperial ideology, Alibis of Empire unearths a striking and pervasive dynamic of modern empire.

Book Critics of Empire

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  • Author : Bernard Porter
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2007-10-24
  • ISBN : 0857711776
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book Critics of Empire written by Bernard Porter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-10-24 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion of 'empire' has been at the forefront of world politics for over a century. Bernard Porter's landmark work traces the critical response to the British imperial project in the years leading up to World War I. Imperial adventures, including the intervention in Egypt and the Anglo-Boer War, together with the jingoistic clamour that surrounded them, attracted powerful hostility as well as support. "Criticism of Empire" is the subject of Porter's stimulating book. Long regarded as the classic account, the author has now added a substantial new Introduction. He demonstrates the power and influence of major critics such as J.A. Hobson - the acknowledged creator of the 'capitalist theory' of imperialism - E.D. Morel and Mary Kingsley and of organisations like the Congo Reform Association. With themes which are also highly relevant to the present day discourse on the American 'empire', this book will prove essential reading for all students of imperial and international history.

Book The National Union Catalog  Pre 1956 Imprints

Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Presidents Above Party

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  • Author : Ralph Ketcham
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2013-04-01
  • ISBN : 0807839361
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book Presidents Above Party written by Ralph Ketcham and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Washington's vision was a presidency free of party, a republican, national office that would transcend faction. That vision would remain strong in the administrations of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, and John Quincy Adams, yet largely disappear under Andrew Jackson and his successors. This book is a comprehensive and pathbreaking study of the early presidency and the ideals behind it. Ralph Ketcham examines the roots of nonpartisan leadership in Western thought and the particular influences on the founding fathers. Intellectual and political profiles of the first six presidents and their administrations emphasize the construction each put on the office, the challenges he faced, and the compromises he did and did not make. The erosion of nonpartisanship under Andrew Jackson is presented as a counterpoint that helps define the early presidency and the permanent transition from it. Addressing the thoughtful citizen as well as the scholar, the author poses the fundamental questions about presidential leadership, then and now. The best study of the early presidency, this book is an intellectual portrait of the age that will challenge received notions of American history.

Book Clad in Iron

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  • Author : Howard J. Fuller
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2007-12-30
  • ISBN : 0313345910
  • Pages : 449 pages

Download or read book Clad in Iron written by Howard J. Fuller and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-12-30 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work addresses many persistent misconceptions of what the monitors were for, and why they failed in other roles associated with naval operations of the Civil War (such as the repulse at Charleston, April 7, 1863). Monitors were 'ironclads'- not fort-killers. Their ultimate success is to be measured not in terms of spearheading attacks on fortified Southern ports but in the quieter, much more profound, strategic deterrence of Lord Palmerston's ministry in London, and the British Royal Navy's potential intervention. The relatively unknown 'Cold War' of the American Civil War was a nevertheless crucial aspect of the survival, or not, of the United States in the mid 19th-century. Foreign intervention—explicitly in the form of British naval power—represented a far more serious threat to the success of the Union blockade, the safety of Yankee merchant shipping worldwide, and Union combined operations against the South than the Confederate States Navy. Whether or not the North or South would be 'clad in iron' thus depended on the ability of superior Union ironclads to deter the majority of mid-Victorian British leaders, otherwise tempted by their desire to see the American 'experiment' in democratic class-structures and popular government finally fail. Discussions of open European involvement in the Civil War were pointless as long as the coastline of the United States was virtually impregnable. Combining extensive archival research on both sides of the Atlantic, this work offers an in-depth look at how the Union Navy achieved its greatest grand-strategic victory in the American Civil War. Through a combination of high-tech 'machines' armed with 'monster' guns, intensive coastal fortifications and a new fleet of high-speed Union commerce raiders, the North was able to turn the humiliation of the Trent Affair of late 1861 into a sobering challenge to British naval power and imperial defense worldwide.

Book Bluff  Bluster  Lies and Spies

Download or read book Bluff Bluster Lies and Spies written by David Perry and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth illustration of shifting Civil War alliances and strategies and of Great Britain’s behind-the-scenes role in America’s War Between the States. In the early years of the Civil War, Southern arms won spectacular victories on the battlefield. But cooler heads in the Confederacy recognized the demographic and industrial weight pitted against them, and they counted on British intervention to even the scales and deny the United States victory. Fearful that Great Britain would recognize the Confederacy and provide the help that might have defeated the Union, the Lincoln administration was careful not to upset the greatest naval power on earth. Bluff, Bluster, Lies and Spies takes history buffs into the mismanaged State Department of William Henry Seward in Washington, DC, and details the more skillful work of Lords Palmerston, Russell, and Lyons in the British Foreign Office. It explains how Great Britain’s safety and continued existence as an empire depended on maintaining an influence on American foreign policy and how the growth of the Union navy—particularly its new ironclad ships—rendered her a paper tiger who relied on deceit and bravado to preserve the illusion of international strength. Britain had its own continental rivals—including France—and the question of whether a truncated United States was most advantageous to British interests was a vital question. Ultimately, Prime Minister Palmerston decided that Great Britain would be no match for a Union armada that could have seized British possessions throughout the Western Hemisphere, including Canada, and he frustrated any ambitions to break Lincoln’s blockade of the Confederacy. Revealing a Europe full of spies and arms dealers who struggled to buy guns and of detectives and publicists who attempted to influence opinion on the continent about the validity of the Union or Confederate causes, David Perry describes how the Civil War in the New World was determined by Southern battlefield prowess, as the powers of the Old World declined to intervene in the American conflict.

Book The National Union Catalog  Pre 1956 Imprints

Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Liberalism  Democracy

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  • Author : Julia Stapleton
  • Publisher : A&C Black
  • Release : 1997-08-15
  • ISBN : 9781855065345
  • Pages : 180 pages

Download or read book Liberalism Democracy written by Julia Stapleton and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1997-08-15 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I am most impressed. I think that the introduction is admirably comprehensive, and very up-to-date in its range of reference. The detailed editing of extracts is not too instrusively explanatory (as this inhibits their use as teaching material) but in its provision of biographical and other notes is a model of its kind' - Professor Christopher Harvie, author of The Lights of Liberalism The five pieces reprinted here are part of the vibrant polemical literature of liberalism in the last four decades of the nineteenth century. They illustrate a creed whose adherents were acutely aware of its recent achievements and further potential in shaping British society and politics. The dynamic, highly reflective nature of British liberalism in this period is already familiar through substantial texts such as Mill's Subjection of Women (1869) and Spencer's The Man Versus the State (1884). However, many works on a smaller scale were also important in defining the contours of liberal thought when the political fortunes of liberalism were at their height. This volume represents a sample of such writings. It will be of interest to scholars and advanced undergraduates studying liberalism and English political thought and history. --illustrates the significant liberal debate that took place during this period through short articles rather than the well-known larger works like Stephen's Liberty, Equality, Fraternity --includes two items never before reprinted --a good first entry point - these are short, accessible writings that were aimed at the educated general reader

Book Speeches on Questions of Public Policy  Volume 2

Download or read book Speeches on Questions of Public Policy Volume 2 written by John Bright and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 1970 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Bright was a British Radical and Liberal statesman and one of the greatest orators of his generation. From 1868 to 1871 he was President of the Board of Trade and heavily promoted free trade policies. His speeches are nothing less than legendary. This is volume two out of two, covering his speeches on Reform and other miscellaneous topics..

Book Critics of Empire  British Radical Attitudes to Colonialism in Africa 1895 1914

Download or read book Critics of Empire British Radical Attitudes to Colonialism in Africa 1895 1914 written by Bernard Porter and published by London ; Melbourne [etc.] : Macmillan ; New York : St. Martin's P.. This book was released on 1968 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Indian Freedom Movement and Thought

Download or read book Indian Freedom Movement and Thought written by Lal Bahadur and published by New Delhi : Sterling. This book was released on 1983 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library  1911 1971

Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library 1911 1971 written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: