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Organization of Opinion
Open Voting in England, 1832-68
Av J. Mitchell
Inbunden, 2008
569 kr
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A new account of voting between the First and Second Reform Bills, outlining a new interpretation of electoral behaviour, and emphasizing the links between individual electors and their social context. It also explores the consequences of these ideas for local political organization, suffragism, …
Jacobites at Urbino
An Exiled Court in Transition
Av E. Corp
Inbunden, 2008
569 kr
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Following the Glorious Revolution the court of the exiled Stuarts was for many years based in France, until after the failure of the Jacobite rising of 1715, it was forced to move, eventually to be established in Rome. This book provides the first study of the court in transition, when exiled King …
Thomas Hare and Political Representation in Victorian Britain
Av F. Parsons
Inbunden, 2009
569 kr
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This book is a history of the emergence and development of the concept of proportional representation and its relation to political theory within the context of nineteenth-century British party politics focusing on Thomas Hare (1806-1891).
Loyalty and Identity
Jacobites at Home and Abroad
Av P. Monod, M. Pittock m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
569 kr
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This collection of essays provides a series of fresh approaches to a fascinating subject: Jacobitism. The contributors focus on issues of identity and memory among Jacobites in Scotland, Ireland, England and Europe. They examine Jacobitism as an integral aspect of culture and society in the British …
Law and Government in England during the Long Eighteenth Century
From Consent to Command
Av D. Lemmings
Inbunden, 2011
569 kr
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Over the long eighteenth century English governance was transformed by large adjustments to the legal instruments and processes of power. This book documents and analyzes these shifts and focuses upon the changing relations between legal authority and the English people.
Fascists and Honourable Men
Contingency and Choice in French Politics, 1918-45
Av N. Amzalak
Inbunden, 2011
569 kr
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Was France fascist in the interwar period? This comprehensive historical, political and sociological account follows the rise of engineers and political "non-conformists" in the first half of the twentieth century, examining the French technocracy's relationship with the rise of fascism in France …
Rise and Fall of Radical Westminster, 1780-1890
Av M. Baer
Inbunden, 2012
1130 kr
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The Rise and Fall of Radical Westminster, 1780-1890 explores a critical chapter in the story of Britain's transition to democracy. Utilising the remarkably rich documentation generated by Westminster elections, Baer reveals how the most radical political space in the age of oligarchy became the …
Politics of Samuel Johnson
Inbunden, 2012
635 kr
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A major academic controversy has raged in recent years over the analysis of the political and religious commitments of Samuel Johnson, the most commanding of the 'commanding heights' of eighteenth-century English letters. This book, one of a trilogy from Palgrave, brings that debate to a decisive …
Interpretation of Samuel Johnson
Inbunden, 2012
635 kr
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A major academic controversy has raged in recent years over the analysis of the political and religious commitments of Samuel Johnson, the most commanding of the 'commanding heights' of eighteenth-century English letters. This book, one of a trilogy from Palgrave, brings that debate to a decisive …
Vindiciæ Gallicæ
Defence of the French Revolution: A Critical Edition
Inbunden, 2007
635 kr
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This new edition offers an extensive editor's introduction, a fully annotated text of the first edition of Vindiciæ Gallicæ and an appendix which includes the significant substantive revisions that Mackintosh made to Vindiciæ Gallicæ in the late summer of 1791.
Church, Chapel and Party
Religious Dissent and Political Modernization in Nineteenth-Century England
Inbunden, 2008
569 kr
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Through close examination of dozens of electoral contests in carefully chosen constituencies, the author demonstrates that the fundamental division separating the burgeoning liberal and conservative parties in England in the 1830s and 1840s was religion, and that this controversy was what created a …
War of Religion
Dissenters, Anglicans and the American Revolution
Inbunden, 2008
1316 kr
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Examines the controversial establishment of the first Anglican Church in Boston in 1686, and how later, political leaders John Adams, Samuel Adams, and John Wilkes exploited the disputes as political dynamite together with taxation, trade, and the quartering of troops: topics which John Adams later …
Science and Whig Manners
Science and Political Style in Britain, c. 1790–1850
Av Joe Bord
Inbunden, 2009
569 kr
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Approaching the intersection of politics and science from the perspective of political history, this book looks at how nineteenth-century British Whigs used the themes of natural science to signal their identities, and how their devotion to a culture of liberality helped to define them. Offers a …
Democratic Royalism
The Transformation of the British Monarchy, 1861-1914
Av W. Kuhn
Inbunden, 1996
1130 kr
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In the decades before the First World War no British institution epitomised national identity more forcefully than the monarchy, and no other institution inspired such a universal feeling of loyalty and attachment. The crown reached this position in the half-century after 1861 by giving up its …
Between Resistance and Collabration
Popular Protest in Northern France 1940-45
Av L. Taylor
Inbunden, 2000
1130 kr
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Between Resistance and Collaboration explores the various means by which the local population both protested the hardships brought about by the Nazi occupation of Northern France, often forcing the authorities to do something about them, and evaded the plethora of regulations, political and …
Empire and Order
The Concept of Empire, 800–1800
Av J. Muldoon
Inbunden, 1999
1130 kr
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Empire is an evocative, yet little examined, word. It can mean the domination of vast territories, a Christian world order, a corrupt form of government, or a humanitarian endeavour. Historians relegate the concept of empire to the pre-modern world, identifying the state as the characteristic …
Paternalism and Politics
The Revival of Paternalism in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain
Av K. Lawes
Inbunden, 2000
1692 kr
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Against the background of an emerging industrial state, the popularization of liberal laissez-faire principles, and the rise of a class-based society, it examines the revival of traditional paternal ideals and considers their influence upon the development of social policy.
Enlightenment Geography
The Political Languages of British Geography, 1650-1850
Av R. Mayhew
Inbunden, 2000
1130 kr
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Enlightenment Geography is the first detailed study of the politics of British geography books and of related forms of geographical knowledge in the period from 1650 to 1850. The definition and role of geography in a humanist structure of knowledge are examined and shown to tie it to political …
Giambattista Vico
Imagination and Historical Knowledge
Inbunden, 1993
1643 kr
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The theories of language and society of Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) are examined in this textual analysis of the full range of his theoretical writings, with special emphasis on his little-known early works. Vico's fundamental importance in the history of European ideas lies in his strong …
Manners, Morals and Class in England, 1774-1858
Av M. Morgan
Inbunden, 1994
1130 kr
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This book analyses English social and occupational behavioural ideals from the courtesy book's demise in 1774 to the Medical Act's passage in 1858. Ideals from conduct and etiquette books mix gracefully with those displayed by professional groups, particularly medical practitioners, in an analysis …
War, Religion and Court Patronage in Habsburg Austria
The Social and Cultural Dimensions of Political Interaction, 1521-1622
Av K. MacHardy
Inbunden, 2002
569 kr
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This case study of the causes of the Thirty Years' War suggests an alternative framework to that of Absolutism, and views statebuilding as an interactive bargaining process that can engender challenges to political authority. It shows how selective court patronage changed the cultural habits of …
Language of Politics in Seventeenth-Century England
Inbunden, 1994
1692 kr
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This is a study of the words of political discourse in seventeenth-century England from which we now reconstruct its theories. Taking its starting point in modern theories of language,intellectual history is first reconceptualised. Part 1 presents an overview of the political domain in the …
Catholicism in a Protestant Kingdom
A Study of the Irish Ancien Régime
Inbunden, 1994
1098 kr
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Escaping from narrative history, this book takes a deep look at the Catholic question in eighteenth-century Ireland. It asks how people thought about Catholicism, Protestantism and their society, in order to reassess the content and importance of the religious conflict. In doing this, Dr Cadoc …
Atterbury Plot
Av E. Cruickshanks, H. Erskine-Hill
Inbunden, 2004
569 kr
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Robert Walpole foiled the Atterbury Plot by preventive arrests and holding those he suspected illegally without bail or trial. When Parliament met and the Habeas Corpus Act was suspended, he used show trials, decided by votes along party lines and depending on forged evidence, to curb the Tory …
Bolingbroke's Political Writings
The Conservative Enlightenment
Inbunden, 1997
1889 kr
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In turn, Tory minister, Jacobite renegade, English philosopher and anti-minister, Bolingbroke has elicited mixed reactions from his compatriots, both contempories and historians. Bernard Cottret discusses here his political writings in the context of contemporary thought in England and France. His …
American Republicanism
Roman Ideology in the United States Constitution
Inbunden, 1994
1804 kr
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This book examines what 'republicanism' meant to the Americans who drafted and ratified the United States Constitution, guaranteeing a 'republican form of government' to every state in the Union. M.N.S.Sellers compares the writings and speeches of the founders with the authors they read and …
Politics after Hitler
The Western Allies and the German Party System
Av D. Rogers
Inbunden, 1995
569 kr
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`The demise of the Cold War requires that we look back to the moment and place of its birth in order to reassess those institutions most affected by it. Politics After Hitler is a significant contribution to this scholarly reappraisal and is must reading for students of German history.' - James F. …
Empire and Order
The Concept of Empire, 800–1800
Av J. Muldoon
Inbunden, 1999
1130 kr
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Empire is an evocative, yet little examined, word. It can mean the domination of vast territories, a Christian world order, a corrupt form of government, or a humanitarian endeavour. Historians relegate the concept of empire to the pre-modern world, identifying the state as the characteristic …
Democratic Royalism
The Transformation of the British Monarchy, 1861-1914
Av W. Kuhn
Inbunden, 1996
1130 kr
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In the decades before the First World War no British institution epitomised national identity more forcefully than the monarchy, and no other institution inspired such a universal feeling of loyalty and attachment. The crown reached this position in the half-century after 1861 by giving up its …
Neoclassical History and English Culture
From Clarendon to Hume
Av P. Hicks
Inbunden, 1996
1130 kr
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This book looks at neo-classicism as a context for understanding early-modern English historical writing, and traces the implications of neo-classical history for English political culture at large. By paying close attention to historical genres and audiences, it reassesses both the famous and …
