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Record Nr.

UNINA9910794167403321

Titolo

Connecting centre and locality : political communication in early modern England / / Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2021

ISBN

1-5261-4714-9

1-5261-5552-4

1-5261-4716-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 238 pages.)

Collana

Politics, culture and society in early modern Britain

Manchester scholarship online

Disciplina

324.730941

Soggetti

Communication in politics - Great Britain - History - 17th century

Communication - Political aspects - Great Britain - History - 17th century

Great Britain Politics and government 1603-1714

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey -- 'A dog, a butcher, and a puritan' : the politics of Lent in early modern England / Chris R. Kyle -- The Lord Admiral, the Parliament-men and the narrow seas, 1625-27 / Thomas Cogswell -- Space, place and Laudianism in early Stuart Ipswich / Noah Millstone -- 'Written according to my usual way' : political communication and the rise of the agent in seventeenth-century England / Jason Peacey -- Diligent enquiries and perfect accounts : central initiatives and local agency in the English civil war / Ann Hughes -- Provincial 'Levellers' and the coming of the regicide in the southwest / David R. Como -- Sovereignty by the book : English corporations, Atlantic plantations and literate order, 1557-1650 / Dan Beaver -- Local expertise in hostile territory : state building in Cromwellian Ireland / Jennifer Wells -- News and the personal letter, or the news education of Theophilus Hastings, 7th Earl of Huntingdon, 1660-71 / Lindsay O'Neill -- The news out of Newgate after the 1715 Jacobite rebellion / Rachel Weil.



Sommario/riassunto

This collection examines political communication in early modern Britain. Leading historians of the period scrutinise relations between centre and locality and how the state interacted with its citizens. They place communication at the heart of both political and social history to provide an impetus for further scholarship.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786552003321

Autore

Zhang Aimin <1971-, >

Titolo

The origins of African American civil rights movement, 1865-1956 / / Zhang Aimin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2002

ISBN

1-317-79465-6

1-315-81114-6

1-317-79466-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (341 p.)

Collana

Studies in African American History and Culture

Disciplina

323.1/196073

Soggetti

African Americans - Civil rights - History - 19th century

African Americans - Civil rights - History - 20th century

Civil rights movements - United States - History - 19th century

United States Race relations

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Original Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One THE LEGACY OF THE CIVIL WAR; The African Americans' Rights were not Secured by the Reconstruction; The Establishment and Development of the Racial Segregation System; The Initial Responses of African Americans; Chapter Two BLACK GREAT MIGRATIONS; The Conditions Prior to the First Great Migration; The First Great Migration (1916-1929); The Great Migration during the Second World War and Afterwards

Chapter Three CRISIS, OPPORTUNITY AND THE GROWTH OF AFRICAN AMERICANS' POLITICAL CONSCIOUSNESSThe African Americans Turned to the Democratic Party; The Growth of African American Political



Power; The African Americans' Civil Activities; Chapter Four THE EXPANSION OF SOCIAL BASIS; The Struggles between Liberals and Conservatives inside the Democrat Party; The Involvement of the Left in the Fight for Racial Justice; American Labor Organizations in the Civil Rights Movement; Changes in American Intellectual Circles; Chapter Five EVE OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CIVIL RICHTS MOVEMENT

African Americans' AwakeningThe March on Washington Movement; Chapter Six AMERICAN FEDERAL SUPREME COURT DECISIONS ON CIVIL RIGHTS CASES; Civil Rights Cases; Voting Rights Cases; Education Cases; The Brown Decision; Conclusion; Bibliography; Principal Cases Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.