John Wilkes: A Friend to Liberty

John Wilkes: A Friend to Liberty
Author: Peter D. G. Thomas
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 302
Release: 1996-03-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780198205449

That he was a political maverick, of witty and wicked reputation, has led historians to underestimate him, and this is the first researched biography since 1917. Contemporaries appreciated his achievements more that posterity, one obituarist writing that 'his name will be connected with our history'.

The Cambridge Companion to Edmund Burke

The Cambridge Companion to Edmund Burke
Author: David Dwan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2012-10-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521183316

This comprehensive and accessible Companion examines the life and writings of Edmund Burke, one of the eighteenth century's most influential thinkers.

Empire and mobility in the long nineteenth century

Empire and mobility in the long nineteenth century
Author: David Lambert
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2020-06-08
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1526126400

Mobility was central to imperialism, from the human movements entailed in exploration, travel and migration to the information, communications and commodity flows vital to trade, science, governance and military power. While historians have written on exploration, commerce, imperial transport and communications networks, and the movements of slaves, soldiers and scientists, few have reflected upon the social, cultural, economic and political significance of mobile practices, subjects and infrastructures that underpin imperial networks, or examined the qualities of movement valued by imperial powers and agents at different times. This collection explores the intersection of debates on imperial relations, colonialism and empire with emerging work on mobility. In doing this, it traces how the movements of people, representations and commodities helped to constitute the British empire from the late-eighteenth century through to the Second World War.

Strange Country

Strange Country
Author: Seamus Deane
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780198184904

Strange Country identifies the origin, the development, and the success of the Irish literary tradition in English as one of the first literature that is both national and colonial.

Radical voices, radical ways

Radical voices, radical ways
Author: Laurent Curelly
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2016-10-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1526106213

This collection of essays studies the expression and diffusion of radical ideas in Britain from the period of the English Revolution in the mid-seventeenth century to the Romantic Revolution in the early nineteenth century. The essays included in the volume explore the modes of articulation and dissemination of radical ideas in the period by focusing on actors ('radical voices') and a variety of written texts and cultural practices ('radical ways'), ranging from fiction, correspondence, pamphlets and newspapers to petitions presented to Parliament and toasts raised in public. They analyse the way these media interacted with their political, religious, social and literary context. This volume provides an interdisciplinary outlook on the study of early modern radicalism,with contributions from literary scholars and historians, and uses case studies as insights into the global picture of radical ideas. It will be of interest to students of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literature and history.