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Autore: | Pentland Gordon |
Titolo: | 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 |
Pubblicazione: | Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2016] |
©2016 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xvi, 240 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina: | 941.07 |
Soggetto topico: | HISTORY / Europe / Western |
Soggetto geografico: | Great Britain Politics and government 18th century |
Scotland Politics and government 18th century | |
Persona (resp. second.): | DickinsonH. T. |
PentlandGordon | |
DavisMichael T. <1969-> | |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Liberty, property and popular politics |
ISBN: | 1-4744-1880-5 |
1-4744-0568-1 | |
1-4744-0569-X | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910798161103321 |
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