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A concise and readable account of Burke's political philosophy. As
well as examining the foundation for Burke's thought, the book also
provides much needed connections between the fields of history and
political theory. Critical comment and analysis of Burke's
attitudes to the problems of the second half of the eighteenth
century are also included.
Available on its own, or as part of the 9-volume reissue of the
classic Political Thinkers series.
First published in 1973, this title offers a concise and readable
account of Burke's political philosophy. As well as examining the
foundation for Burke's thought, the book also provides much needed
connections between the fields of history and political theory.
Critical comment and analysis of Burke's attitudes to the problems
of the second half of the eighteenth century are also included.
This long-awaited second edition sees this classic text by a
leading scholar given a new lease of life. It comes complete with a
wealth of original material on a range of topics and takes into
account the vital research that has been undertaken in the field in
the last two decades. The book considers the development of the
internal structure of Britain and explores the growing sense of
British nationhood. It looks at the role of religion in matters of
state and society, in addition to society's own move towards a
class-based system. Commercial and imperial expansion, Britain's
role in Europe and the early stages of liberalism are also
examined. This new edition is fully updated to include: - Revised
and thorough treatments of the themes of gender and religion and of
the 1832 Reform Act - New sections on 'Commerce and Empire' and
'Britain and Europe' - Several new maps and charts - A revised
introduction and a more extensive conclusion - Updated note
sections and bibliographies The Long Eighteenth Century is the
essential text for any student seeking to understand the nuances of
this absorbing period of British history.
A new assessment of the life and political career of Lord
Shelburne, prime minister 1782-83, and of the context in which he
lived. Lord Shelburne, Prime Minister in 1782-83, was a profoundly
important politician, whose achievements included the negotiation
of the peace with the newly-independent United States. This book
constitutes a major and long overdue reappraisal of the politician
considered by Disraeli to be the "most neglected Prime Minister".
The book indicates, caters for, and leads the revival of interest
in high politics, including its gendered aspects. It covers
Shelburne's friends, his finances, and his politics, and places him
carefully within both an international and a national context. For
the first time his complicated but compelling family life, his
satisfying relations with women, andhis Irish ancestry are
presented as essential factors for understanding his public impact
overall. Shelburne was a politician, patron, and cultural leader
whose relationship to many of the ideas, influences, and
individuals of the European Enlightenment are also emphasised. The
book is thoroughly up to date, written by leading authorities in
the field, and predominantly based on unpublished primary research.
Shelburne and his circle constituted oneof the most important [and
progressive] elements in British and European politics during the
second half of the eighteenth century, and the book will appeal to
all readers interested in the Enlightenment. NIGEL ASTON isReader
in Early Modern History in the School of Historical Studies at the
University of Leicester; CLARISSA CAMPBELL ORR is Reader in
Enlightenment, Gender and Court Studies at Anglia Ruskin
University.
Explores loyalism as a social and political force in eighteenth and
nineteenth century British colonies and former colonies. Loyalism
in Britain and Ireland, which was once seen as a crude reaction
against radicalism or nationalism, stimulated by the elite and
blindly followed by plebeians, has recently been shown by
historians to have been, on the contrary, a politically
multi-faceted, socially enabling phenomenon which did much to shape
identity in the British Isles. This book takes further this revised
picture by considering loyalism in the wider British World. It
considersthe overall nature of loyalism, exploring its development
in England, Ireland and Scotland, and goes on to examine its
manifestation in a range of British colonies and former colonies,
including the United States, Canada, India, Australia and New
Zealand. It shows that whilst eighteenth-century Anglo-centric
loyalism had a core of common ideological assumptions,
associational structures and ritual behaviour, loyalism manifested
itself differently in different territories. This divergence is
explored through a discussion of the role of loyal associations and
military institutions, loyalism's cultural and ritual dimensions
and its key role in the formation of political identities.
Chronologically, the book covers a pivotal period, comprehending
the American and French Revolutions, the 1798 Irish rebellion and
Irish Union, the Canadian rebellions of 1837, and Fenianism and
Home Rule campaigns throughout the British World. Allan Blackstock
is Reader in History at the University of Ulster and author of
Loyalism in Ireland, 1789-1829 (Boydell, 2007). Frank O'Gorman was
Professor of History at the Universityof Manchester. Contributors:
Allan Blackstock, Richard P. Davis, Oliver Godsmark, William Gould,
Jacqueline Hill, Andrew R. Holmes, Kyle Hughes, Mark G. McGowan,
Donald M. MacRaild, Keith Mason, Patrick Maume, KatrinaNavickas,
Frank O'Gorman, Brad Patterson, Scott W. See
The Eighteenth century is often represented, applying Tom Paine's
phrase, as 'The Age of Reason': an age when progressive ideals
triumphed over autocracy and obscurantism, and when notions of
order and balance shaped consciousness in every sphere of human
knowledge. Yet the debates which surrounded the development of
Eighteenth-century thought were always open to troubling doubts.
Was nature itself truly an ordered entity, as Newton had argued, or
was it a mass of chaotic, randomly moving atoms, as some
materialist thinkers believed? This book explores the tensions and
conflicts in these debates through a series of interdisciplinary
essays from leading international scholars, each challenging the
idea that the Eighteenth century was an age of order.
This long-awaited second edition sees this classic text by a
leading scholar given a new lease of life. It comes complete with a
wealth of original material on a range of topics and takes into
account the vital research that has been undertaken in the field in
the last two decades. The book considers the development of the
internal structure of Britain and explores the growing sense of
British nationhood. It looks at the role of religion in matters of
state and society, in addition to society's own move towards a
class-based system. Commercial and imperial expansion, Britain's
role in Europe and the early stages of liberalism are also
examined. This new edition is fully updated to include: - Revised
and thorough treatments of the themes of gender and religion and of
the 1832 Reform Act - New sections on 'Commerce and Empire' and
'Britain and Europe' - Several new maps and charts - A revised
introduction and a more extensive conclusion - Updated note
sections and bibliographies The Long Eighteenth Century is the
essential text for any student seeking to understand the nuances of
this absorbing period of British history.
This is a wide-ranging study of electoral politics in England
between 1734 and 1832. It analyses the control of the electoral
system by the upper classes, the world of the voters, and the
function of an election in the unreformed period. The history of
the electoral system has been distorted by later emphasis on the
extent of corruption in the constituencies. Dr O'Gorman takes us
deep into the political underworld normally left undisturbed by
historians; that of the committee men, agents, and canvassers who
made the unreformed system work for as long as it did. Above all,
this book is about the voters - their motivations, prejudices,
beliefs and ideals, as well as their numbers and political
behaviour. Frank O'Gorman has combined computer analysis with
traditional historical methods to reconstruct the social and
ideological world of the voters, and argues that an understanding
of the electoral dimension is vital to a broader understanding of
the Hanoverian regime and its popular acceptance. The interaction
of the parliamentary parties at Westminster with the older
political culture of the constituencies is traced in the final part
of this book. The nature of Hanoverian politics and society have
been the subject of much recent debate, and this far-reaching
analysis of the electorate takes us to the very heart of that
social and political structure.
The essays in this collection range across literature, aesthetics,
music and art, and explore such themes as the dynamics of change in
eighteenth-century aesthetics; time, modernity and the picturesque;
the function of graphic ornaments in eighteenth-century texts;
imaginary voyages as a literary genre; the genesis of children's
literature; the Italian opera and musical theory in Frances
Burney's novels; Italian and British art theories; and patterns of
cultural transfers and of book circulation between Britain and
Italy in the eighteenth century. Collectively they epitomise the
concerns and approaches of scholars working on the long eighteenth
century at this challenging and exciting time. In the absence of
universally agreed, overarching interpretations of the cultural
history of the long eighteenth century, these papers pave the way
for the ultimate emergence of such explanations.Authors discussed
here include Margaret Cavendish, David Russen, Francis Hutcheson,
Reverend Gilpin, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Laurence
Sterne, Dugald Stewart, Dorothy Kilner, Frances Burney, Anna Gordon
Brown, Saverio Bettinelli, Henry Ince Blundell, Francesco
Algarotti, Ugo Foscolo and Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi.
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