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Book The Works of George Savile  Marquis of Halifax  Volume III

Download or read book The Works of George Savile Marquis of Halifax Volume III written by George Savile and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1989-08-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scholarly edition of The Works of George Savile, Marquess of Halifax by Mark N. Brown. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

Book The Works of George Savile  Marquis of Halifax  Volume III

Download or read book The Works of George Savile Marquis of Halifax Volume III written by George Savile and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1989-08-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scholarly edition of The Works of George Savile, Marquess of Halifax by Mark N. Brown. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

Book Republics Ancient and Modern  Volume III

Download or read book Republics Ancient and Modern Volume III written by Paul A. Rahe and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1992 and now available in paperback in three volumes, Paul Rahe's ambitious and provocative book bridges the gap between political theory, comparative history and government, and constitutional prudence. Rahe challenges prevailing interpretations of ancient Greek republicanism, early modern political thought, and the founding of the American republic. '[An] extraordinary book. . . . It is a great achievement and will stay as a landmark.'--The Spectator (London) 'This is the first, comprehensive study of republicanism, ancient and modern, written for our time.'--Harvey Mansfield, Harvard University 'A stunning feat of scholarship, presented with uncommon grace and ease--the sort of big, important book that comes along a few times in a generation. In an age of narrow specialists, it ranges through the centuries from classical Greece to the new American Republic, unfolding a coherent new interpretation of the rise of modern republicanism. . . . World-class, and sure to have a quite extraordinary impact.'--Lance Banning, University of Kentucky Volume I: The Ancien Regime in Classical Greece Where social scientists and many ancient historians tend to follow Max Weber or Karl Marx in asserting the centrality of status or class, Rahe's depiction of the illiberal, martial republics of classical Hellas vindicates Aristotle's insistence on the determinative influence of the political regime and brings back to life a world in which virtue is pursued as an end, politics is given primacy, and socioeconomic concerns are subordinated to grand political ambition. Volume II: New Modes and Orders in Early Modern Political Thought Where many intellectual historians discern a revival of the classical spirit in the political speculation of the age stretching from Machiavelli to Adam Smith, Rahe brings to light a self-conscious repudiation of the theory and practice of ancient self-government and an inclination to restrict the scope of politics, to place greater reliance on institutions than on virtuous restraint, and to give free rein to the human's capacities as a tool-making animal. Volume III: Inventions of Prudence: Constituting the American Regime Where students of the American founding are inclined to dispute whether the Revolution was liberal, republican, or merely confused, Rahe demonstrates that the American regime embodies an uneasy, fragile, and carefully worked-out compromise between the enlightened despotism espoused by Thomas Hobbes and the classical republicanism defended by Pericles and Demosthenes.

Book The Works of George Savile  Marquis of Halifax

Download or read book The Works of George Savile Marquis of Halifax written by George Savile (Marquis of Halifax.) and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Works of George Savile  Marquis of Halifax  Volume II

Download or read book The Works of George Savile Marquis of Halifax Volume II written by George Savile Marquis of Halifax and published by Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1989-08-03 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is intended for historians of the seventeenth century, students of literature." --

Book The Works of John Dryden  Volume III

Download or read book The Works of John Dryden Volume III written by John Dryden and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the poems of Dryden extending from1685 to 1692. Along with the poems of Dryden and associated extensive commentaries and textual notes from the editors, this volume contains the dramatic prologues and epilogues Dryden wrote for the plays of other writers from this period of time.

Book A Character of King Charles the Second

Download or read book A Character of King Charles the Second written by George Savile Marquis of Halifax and published by . This book was released on 1750 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Life and Letters of Sir George Savile  Bart   First Marquis of Halifax  c

Download or read book The Life and Letters of Sir George Savile Bart First Marquis of Halifax c written by Helen Charlotte Foxcroft and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Oxford History of Anglicanism  Volume II

Download or read book The Oxford History of Anglicanism Volume II written by Jeremy Gregory and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-22 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford History of Anglicanism is a major new and unprecedented international study of the identity and historical influence of one of the world's largest versions of Christianity. This global study of Anglicanism from the sixteenth century looks at how was Anglican identity constructed and contested at various periods since the sixteenth century; and what was its historical influence during the past six centuries. It explores not just the ecclesiastical and theological aspects of global Anglicanism, but also the political, social, economic, and cultural influences of this form of Christianity that has been historically significant in western culture, and a burgeoning force in non-western societies today. The chapters are written by international exports in their various historical fields which includes the most recent research in their areas, as well as original research. The series forms an invaluable reference for both scholars and interested non-specialists. Volume two of The Oxford History of Anglicanism explores the period between 1662 and 1829 when its defining features were arguably its establishment status, which gave the Church of England a political and social position greater than before or since. The contributors explore the consequences for the Anglican Church of its establishment position and the effects of being the established Church of an emerging global power. The volume examines the ways in which the Anglican Church engaged with Evangelicalism and the Enlightenment; outlines the constitutional position and main challenges and opportunities facing the Church; considers the Anglican Church in the regions and parts of the growing British Empire; and includes a number of thematic chapters assessing continuity and change.

Book Restoration and Revolution in Britain

Download or read book Restoration and Revolution in Britain written by Gary S. De Krey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles II was restored to the rule of England, Scotland and Ireland in 1660, less than twelve years after the execution of his father, Charles I, and the ensuing republican experiment in government. Popular at first, the Restoration nevertheless failed to provide lasting settlement in any of the British kingdoms. Restoration and Revolution in Britain examines the political history of these kingdoms, from the Interregnum through Britain's eighteenth-century rise to power. Written especially for students approaching the Restoration for the first time, this essential introduction: - Assesses the reasons for the failure of settlement in the reigns of Charles and of his brother, James II - Integrates the histories of Charles's different realms - Examines the many connections between politics and Protestant religious disagreements - Provides helpful historical context for understanding a range of contemporary authors such as Bunyan, Locke and Milton - Concludes with an examination of the Glorious Revolution of 1688-89 and explains why settlement was finally achieved through revolution rather than through restoration

Book The Works of George Savile  Marquis of Halifax  Volume I

Download or read book The Works of George Savile Marquis of Halifax Volume I written by George Savile Marquis of Halifax and published by Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1989-08-03 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This completely new edition of the works of George Savile (1633-1695) allows a major reassessment of the notorious "trimmer" whose opposition to the Exclusion Bill probably saved the English throne. Of particular interest is Savile's literary output, which is broader and more reflective than the political propaganda for which he is better known. The editor has brought together all of the available texts by this prominent politician and writer, providing detailed introductions to each work and to Halifax's career in general, as well as a commentary that identifies and explains the numerous allusions. This is the first edition to make use of all sixty-one available manuscripts. Seventeen of the thirty works in this volume are being published for the first time.

Book The Cambridge Modern History

Download or read book The Cambridge Modern History written by Sir Adolphus William Ward and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book How the Old World Ended

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  • Author : Jonathan Scott
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2020-01-07
  • ISBN : 0300243596
  • Pages : 409 pages

Download or read book How the Old World Ended written by Jonathan Scott and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magisterial account of how the cultural and maritime relationships between the British, Dutch and American territories changed the existing world order - and made the Industrial Revolution possible Between 1500 and 1800, the North Sea region overtook the Mediterranean as the most dynamic part of the world. At its core the Anglo-Dutch relationship intertwined close alliance and fierce antagonism to intense creative effect. But a precondition for the Industrial Revolution was also the establishment in British North America of a unique type of colony - for the settlement of people and culture, rather than the extraction of things. England's republican revolution of 1649-53 was a spectacular attempt to change social, political and moral life in the direction pioneered by the Dutch. In this wide-angled and arresting book Jonathan Scott argues that it was also a turning point in world history. In the revolution's wake, competition with the Dutch transformed the military-fiscal and naval resources of the state. One result was a navally protected Anglo-American trading monopoly. Within this context, more than a century later, the Industrial Revolution would be triggered by the alchemical power of American shopping

Book Georgian Monarchy

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  • Author : Hannah Smith
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2006-06-08
  • ISBN : 0521828767
  • Pages : 40 pages

Download or read book Georgian Monarchy written by Hannah Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-06-08 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Book Approaches to Teaching the Works of John Dryden

Download or read book Approaches to Teaching the Works of John Dryden written by Jayne Lewis and published by Modern Language Association. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Which John Dryden should be brought into the twenty-first-century college classroom? The rehabilitator of the ancients? The first of the moderns? The ambivalent laureate? The sidelined convert to Rome? The literary theorist? The translator? The playwright? The poet? This volume in the MLA series Approaches to Teaching World Literature addresses the tensions, contradictions, and versatility of a writer who, in the words of Samuel Johnson, "found [English poetry] brick, and left it marble," who was, in the words of Walter Scott, "one of the greatest of our masters." Part 1, "Materials," offers a guide to the teaching editions of Dryden's work and a discussion of the background resources, from biographies and literary criticism to social, cultural, political, and art histories. In part 2, "Approaches," essays describe different pedagogical entries into Dryden and his time. These approaches cover subjects as various as genre, adaptation, literary rivalry, musical setting, and political and religious poetry in classroom situations that range from the traditional survey to learning through performance.

Book The Cambridge Modern History

Download or read book The Cambridge Modern History written by Sir Stanley Mordaunt Leathes and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1034 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cultural Exchange in Seventeenth Century France and England

Download or read book Cultural Exchange in Seventeenth Century France and England written by Gesa Stedman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gesa Stedman's ambitious new study is a comprehensive account of cross-channel cultural exchanges between seventeenth-century France and England, and includes discussion of a wide range of sources and topics. Literary texts, garden design, fashion, music, dance, food, the book market, and the theatre as well as key historical figures feature in the book. Importantly, Stedman concentrates on the connection between actual, material transfer and its symbolic representation in both visual and textual sources, investigating material exchange processes in order to shed light on the connection between actual and symbolic exchange. Individual chapters discuss exchanges instigated by mediators such as Henrietta Maria and Charles II, and textual and visual representations of cultural exchange with France in poetry, restoration comedies, fashion discourse, and in literary devices and characters. Well-written and accessible, Cultural Exchange in Seventeenth-Century France and England provides needed insight into the field of cultural exchange, and will be of interest to both literary scholars and cultural historians.