William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s

William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s
Author: Saree Makdisi
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2003
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780226502595

Modern scholars often find it difficult to account for the profound eccentricities in the work of William Blake, dismissing them as either ahistorical or simply meaningless. But with this pioneering study, Saree Makdisi develops a reliable and comprehensive framework for understanding these peculiarities. According to Makdisi, Blake's poetry and drawings should compel us to reconsider the history of the 1790s. Tracing for the first time the many links among economics, politics, and religion in his work, Makdisi shows how Blake questioned and even subverted the commercial, consumerist, and political liberties that his contemporaries championed, all while developing his own radical aesthetic.

The House of Commons

The House of Commons
Author: R. G. Thorne
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 3610
Release: 1986
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780436521010

The House of Commons volumes, part of the History of Parliament series, are a major academic project describing the House's members, constituencies and activities covering the period 1386-1832. Consists of biographies of every person who sat as a member of the House during the period concerned; descriptions of each election during the period in each constituency; and an introductory survey, pulling together and analysing the information given in the biographies and constituency histories.

Reactions to Revolutions

Reactions to Revolutions
Author: Ulrich Broich
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN: 9783825874278

The outbreak of revolution in Paris in 1789 forced Britain into a political and military conflict that had a profound impact on politics, economy, public discourse and cultural life well into the 19th century. The essays collected here examine the various responses to the revolution and the significant changes wrought within Britain by the events. Some essays discuss the ideological divisions within Britain and Ireland. Others take a closer look at the media and the debate on the press, and reinvestigate responses to the revolution by prominent contemporaries such as William Godwin, Dugald Stewart, and William Wordsworth.

Seekers of Truth

Seekers of Truth
Author: Gary J. Previts
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 463
Release: 2006-04-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 076231298X

The mid nineteenth century founders of the foundation of institutionalised public accountancy in the English-speaking world were public accountants practicing in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Aberdeen. Their historical legacy is a respected profession world-wide. This book aims to celebrate this legacy in biographies of 138 accountants.

Scotland and the French Revolutionary War, 1792-1802

Scotland and the French Revolutionary War, 1792-1802
Author: Atle Wold
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2015-07-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1474406688

For the British government's supporters in Scotland in the 1790s, one thing was paramount: they were fighting French principles in any shape or form they might take. Whether this meant defeating the influence of French revolutionary ideas in Scotland, or defeating the military menace of the French republic, they were determined to stand firm in their support of the British state.This book charts the Scottish contribution to, both the war effort of the 1790s, and the British governments struggles to defeat political radicalism at home; lasting from the first outbreak of political disturbances in Scotland in 1792, until the French revolutionary war came to an end in 1802. In this, the Scots made their very distinct mark in terms of recruitment for armed service, demonstrations of loyalty, and prosecutions against political radicals in the law courts but, perhaps less so, in terms of their financial contributions . The government of Scotland was further integrated into the British state in a structural sense over the course of the decade, yet retained many distinctly Scottish features none the less and on the whole the 1790s comes across as a time when the Scots found little difficulty in seeing themselves as both British and Scottish.