Liberty, property and popular politics : England and Scotland, 1688-1815: essays in honour of H.T. Dickinson / / edited by Gordon Pentland and Michael T. Davis

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910821725603321
• Autore: Pentland Gordon
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• ISBN: 1-4744-1880-5; 1-4744-0568-1; 1-4744-0569-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvi, 240 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 941.07
• Soggetti: HISTORY / Europe / Western; Great Britain Politics and government 18th century; Scotland Politics and government 18th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Sep 2016).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: "The press ought to be open to all": from the liberty of conscience to the liberty of the press / Eckhart Hellmuth -- "Could the Scots become true British?" The prelude to the Scottish peerage bill, 1706-16 / Shin Matsuzono -- Parliament and church reform: off and on the agenda / Joanna Innes -- Liberty, property, and the post-Culloden acts of Parliament in the Gàidhealtachd / Matthew P. Dziennik -- Political toasting in the age of revolutions: Britain, America, and France, 1765-1800 / Rémy Duthille -- Edmund Burke, dissent, and church and state / Martin Fitzpatrick -- "The wisest and most beneficial schemes:" William Ogilvie, radical political economy and the Scottish Enlightenment / David Allan -- Thomas Spence and James Harrington: a case study in influence / Stephen M. Lee -- Thomas Spence, children's literature and "Learning...debauched by ambition" / Matthew Grenby -- British radical attitudes towards the United States of America in the 1790s: the case of William Winterbotham / Emma Macleod -- Was there a law of sedition in Scotland? Baron David Hume's analysis of the Scottish sedition trials of 1794 / Atle L. Wold -- The vilification of ; Thomas Paine: constructing a folk devil in the 1790s / Michael T. Davis -- Nelson's circles: networking in the navy during the French wars / Marianne Ceisnik -- The posthumous lives of Thomas Muir / Gordon Pentland.
• Sommario/riassunto: This collection (in honour of an internationally-renowned scholar who had shaped both scholarly and popular understandings of the period) comprises fourteen chapters written by specialists in the period and provides an appealing and illuminating cross-section of current research.