Public Opinion, Propaganda, and Politics in Eighteenth-century England

Public Opinion, Propaganda, and Politics in Eighteenth-century England
Author: Thomas Whipple Perry
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 1962
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780674724006

This book is the first thorough account of the Jewish Naturalization Act of 1753, a notorious but little-understood episode in English history. The author discusses the position of the Jews in the mid-eighteenth century and explains why they sought and obtained passage of the bill, which was opposed with a well-organized propaganda campaign.

The Politics of the People in Eighteenth-Century Britain

The Politics of the People in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Author: H.T. Dickinson
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2016-01-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 134924659X

This challenging and original study examines the most important aspects of popular political culture in eighteenth-century Britain. The first part explores the way the British people could influence existing political institutions or could exploit their existing powers, by looking at the role of the people in parliamentary elections, in a wide range of pressure groups, in their local urban communities, and in popular demonstrations. The second part shows how the British people became increasingly politicised during the eighteenth century and how they tried to shape or defend their political world.

Political Economy and Imperial Governance in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Political Economy and Imperial Governance in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Author: Heather Welland
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2021-06-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000394255

This book examines the relationship between imperial governance and political economy in eighteenth-century Britain, particularly in Canada and Ireland. It is concerned with the way economic ideology and party politics were mutually constitutive; and with the way extra-parliamentary interests both facilitated, and were co-opted into, strategies of governance and commercial regulation. Rather than treat political economy as a pre-existing intellectual orthodoxy that shaped imperial policymaking, it focuses on the ways in which economic thought was generated in moments of imperial crisis – especially those where politicians, commercial interest groups, and pamphleteer economists were forced to wrestle with the tensions between economic growth, political authority, and social stability. By rooting economic discourse and debate in specific problems of imperial commerce and administration, and by highlighting the many different actors and negotiations that produced economic policy, it argues that the transition from mercantilism to liberalism – the shift from protectionism to free trade – is a flawed description of eighteenth-century developments in economic thought.

Propaganda 1776

Propaganda 1776
Author: Russ Castronovo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2014
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199354901

Propaganda 1776 reframes the culture of the U.S. Revolution and early Republic, revealing it to be rooted in a vast network of propaganda. Truth, clarity, and honesty were declared virtues of the period - but rumors, falsehoods, forgeries, and unauthorized publication were no less the life's blood of liberty. Looking at famous patriots like George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine; the playwright Mary Otis Warren; and the poet Philip Freneau, Castronovo provides various anecdotes that demonstrate the ways propaganda was - contrary to our instinctual understanding - fundamental to democracy rather than antithetical to it. By focusing on the persons and methods involved in Revolutionary communications, Propaganda 1776 both reconsiders the role that print culture plays in historical transformation and reexamines the widely relevant issue of how information circulates in a democracy.

A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Britain

A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Britain
Author: H. T. Dickinson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 597
Release: 2006-06-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 1405149639

This authoritative Companion introduces readers to the developments that lead to Britain becoming a great world power, the leading European imperial state, and, at the same time, the most economically and socially advanced, politically liberal and religiously tolerant nation in Europe. Covers political, social, cultural, economic and religious history. Written by an international team of experts. Examines Britain's position from the perspective of other European nations.

Newspapers and English Society 1695-1855

Newspapers and English Society 1695-1855
Author: Hannah Barker
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2014-06-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317883454

This lively new study covers the dramatic expansion of the press from the seventeenth century to the mid nineteenth century. Hannah Barker explores the factors behind the rise of newspapers to a major force helping to reflect and shape public opinion and altering the way in which politics operated at every level of English life. Newspapers, Politics and English Society 1695-1855 provides a unique insight into the political and social history of eighteenth and nineteenth century England as well as an important study of the history of the media.

Politics and the Rise of the Press

Politics and the Rise of the Press
Author: Bob Harris
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2008-01-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134806507

Politics and the Rise of the Press compares the rise of the newspaper press in Britain and France, and assesses how it influenced political life and political culture. From its social, economic and political sources, to its importance for the middling ranks in eighteenth-century British society, and its transformation after the French revolution. This detailed, comparative account, which also contains considerable original research on the early Scottish press, will be of value to all students of French and British history of the period.

Britain in the First Age of Party, 1687-1750

Britain in the First Age of Party, 1687-1750
Author: Clyve Jones
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 318
Release: 1986-07-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 082643746X

The 70 years of late Stuart and early Hanoverian Britain following 1680 were a crucial period in British politics and society, seeing the growth both of political parties and of stability. This collection of original essays provides a coherent account of Britain in the 'First Age of Party'.