Exploring Russia in the Elizabethan commonwealth : The Muscovy Company and Giles Fletcher, the elder (1546–1611) / / Felicity Jane Stout

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910971093303321
• Autore: Stout Felicity Jane
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2015; Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2017; ©2015
• ISBN: 9781784996253; 1784996254; 9781784996871; 1784996874
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 251 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: Politics, culture and society in early modern Britain
• Disciplina: 327.41047
• Soggetti: Diplomatic relations; History; Russia; Great Britain; Russia History 1533-1613; Russia Foreign relations Great Britain; Great Britain Foreign relations Russia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-243) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: An adventuring commonwealth: English mercantile and diplomatic encounters with Russia, 1553-88 -- A commonwealths-man in Russia: Giles Fletcher's early career and embassies -- Creating a feigned commonwealth: Fletcher's response to Russia -- A corrupted commonwealth: Fletcher's representation of Russia -- A commonwealth counseled: Russia's resonances in late Elizabethan England -- A controversial commonwealth: censorship, poetry and Fletcher's late career -- Conclusion. Thinking with Russia, writing English commonwealth.
• Sommario/riassunto: Exploring Russia in the Elizabethan Commonwealth tells the story of ; English relations with Russia, from the 'strange and wonderfull discoverie' of the land and Elizabeth I's correspondence with Ivan the Terrible, to the corruption of the Muscovy Company and the Elizabethan regime's censorship of politically sensitive representations of Russia. Focusing on the life and works of Giles Fletcher, the elder, ambassador to Russia in 1588, this work explores two popular themes in Elizabethan history: exploration, travel and trade and late Elizabethan political culture. By analysing the pervasive languages of commonwealth, corruption and tyranny found in both the Muscovy Company accounts and in Fletcher's writings on Russia, this monograph explores how Russia was a useful tool for Elizabethans to think with when they contemplated the nature of government and the changing face of monarchy in the late Elizabethan regime. It will appeal to academics and students of Elizabethan political culture and literary studies, as well as those of early modern travel and trade.

To Enlarge the Machinery of Government : Congressional Debates and the Growth of the American State, 1858-1891

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910583577903321
• Autore: Hoffer Williamjames Hull
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007
• ISBN: 1-4214-2834-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• Soggetti: History of the Americas
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: How did the federal government change from the weak apparatus of the antebellum period to the large, administrative state of the Progressive Era? To Enlarge the Machinery of Government explores the daily proceedings of the U.S. House and Senate from 1858 to 1891 to find answers to this question.Through close readings of debates centered around sponsorship, supervision, and standardization ; recorded in the Congressional Globe and Congressional Record during this period, Williamjames Hull Hoffer traces a critical shift in ideas that ultimately ushered in Progressive legislation: the willingness of American citizens to allow, and in fact ask for, federal intervention in their daily lives. He describes this era of congressional thought as a "second state," distinct from both the minimalist approaches that came before and the Progressive state building that developed later. The "second state" era, Hoffer contends, offers valuable insight into how conceptions of American uniqueness contributed to the shape of the federal government.