The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal

The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal
Author: Ralph Griffiths
Publisher:
Total Pages: 652
Release: 1787
Genre: Books
ISBN:

A monthly book announcement and review journal. Considered to be the first periodical in England to offer reviews. In each issue the longer reviews are in the front section followed by short reviews of lesser works. It featured the novelist and poet Oliver Goldsmith as an early contributor. Griffiths himself, and likely his wife Isabella Griffiths, contributed review articles to the periodical. Later contributors included Dr. Charles Burney, John Cleland, Theophilus Cibber, James Grainger, Anna Letitia Barbauld, Elizabeth Moody, and Tobias Smollet.

The Politics of Wine in Britain

The Politics of Wine in Britain
Author: C. Ludington
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2016-01-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0230306225

A unique look at the meaning of the taste for wine in Britain, from the establishment of a Commonwealth in 1649 to the Commercial Treaty between Britain and France in 1860 - this book provides an extraordinary window into the politics and culture of England and Scotland just as they were becoming the powerful British state.