A History of England in the Eighteenth Century
Author | : William Edward Hartpole Lecky |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1887 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : William Edward Hartpole Lecky |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1887 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Paul Langford |
Publisher | : Oxford Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 129 |
Release | : 2000-08-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0192853996 |
Part of The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, this book spans from the aftermath of the Revolution of 1688 to Pitt the Younger's defeat at attempted parliamentary reform.
Author | : Anne Buck |
Publisher | : Holmes & Meier Publishers |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Art |
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Author | : David M. Turner |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2012-08-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1136304231 |
This is the first book-length study of physical disability in eighteenth-century England. It assesses the ways in which meanings of physical difference were formed within different cultural contexts, and examines how disabled men and women used, appropriated, or rejected these representations in making sense of their own experiences. In the process, it asks a series of related questions: what constituted ‘disability’ in eighteenth-century culture and society? How was impairment perceived? How did people with disabilities see themselves and relate to others? What do their stories tell us about the social and cultural contexts of disability, and in what ways were these narratives and experiences shaped by class and gender? In order to answer these questions, the book explores the languages of disability, the relationship between religious and medical discourses of disability, and analyzes depictions of people with disabilities in popular culture, art, and the media. It also uncovers the ‘hidden histories’ of disabled men and women themselves drawing on elite letters and autobiographies, Poor Law documents and criminal court records. The book won the Disability History Association Outstanding Publication Prize in 2012 for the best book published worldwide in disability history and also inspired parts of the Radio 4 series, ‘Disability: A New History’, on which the author was historical adviser. The series gained 2.6 million listeners when it first aired in 2013.
Author | : Colin Heydt |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108421091 |
A new account of a vital period in the history of ethics, focusing on the content of morality.
Author | : Zachary Dorner |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2020-07-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022670680X |
The period from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century—the so-called long eighteenth century of English history—was a time of profound global change, marked by the expansion of intercontinental empires, long-distance trade, and human enslavement. It was also the moment when medicines, previously produced locally and in small batches, became global products. As greater numbers of British subjects struggled to survive overseas, more medicines than ever were manufactured and exported to help them. Most historical accounts, however, obscure the medicine trade’s dependence on slave labor, plantation agriculture, and colonial warfare. In Merchants of Medicines, Zachary Dorner follows the earliest industrial pharmaceuticals from their manufacture in the United Kingdom, across trade routes, and to the edges of empire, telling a story of what medicines were, what they did, and what they meant. He brings to life business, medical, and government records to evoke a vibrant early modern world of London laboratories, Caribbean estates, South Asian factories, New England timber camps, and ships at sea. In these settings, medicines were produced, distributed, and consumed in new ways to help confront challenges of distance, labor, and authority in colonial territories. Merchants of Medicines offers a new history of economic and medical development across early America, Britain, and South Asia, revealing the unsettlingly close ties among medicine, finance, warfare, and slavery that changed people’s expectations of their health and their bodies.
Author | : Dorothy Marshall |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 572 |
Release | : 2014-06-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317873025 |
A standard introduction to the period which has retained its popularity with generations of students
Author | : T.S. Ashton |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2013-11-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1136586997 |
T.S. Ashton has sought less to cover the field of economic history in detail than to offer a commentary, with a stress on trends of development rather than on forms of organization or economic legislation. This book seeks to interpret the growth of population, agriculture, maufacture, trade and finance in eighteenth-century England. It throws light on economic fluctuations and on the changing conditions of the wage-earners. The approach is that of an economist and use is made of hitherto neglected statistics. But treatment and language are simple. The book is intended not only for the specialist but also for others who turn to the past for its own sake or for understanding the present. This book was first published in 1955.
Author | : Frank O'Gorman |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 457 |
Release | : 2016-01-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1472508939 |
This long-awaited second edition sees this classic text by a leading scholar given a new lease of life. It comes complete with a wealth of original material on a range of topics and takes into account the vital research that has been undertaken in the field in the last two decades. The book considers the development of the internal structure of Britain and explores the growing sense of British nationhood. It looks at the role of religion in matters of state and society, in addition to society's own move towards a class-based system. Commercial and imperial expansion, Britain's role in Europe and the early stages of liberalism are also examined. This new edition is fully updated to include: - Revised and thorough treatments of the themes of gender and religion and of the 1832 Reform Act - New sections on 'Commerce and Empire' and 'Britain and Europe' - Several new maps and charts - A revised introduction and a more extensive conclusion - Updated note sections and bibliographies The Long Eighteenth Century is the essential text for any student seeking to understand the nuances of this absorbing period of British history.
Author | : John Harold Plumb |
Publisher | : Harmondsworth, Middlesex : Penguin Books, Montreal : Riverside Books [1950] |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
"Further reading list": pages [215]-218.