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This book examines the difficult relationship between individual
intellectual freedom and the legal structures which govern human
societies in William Blake’s works, showing that this tension
carries a political urgency that has not yet been recognised by
scholars in the field. In doing so, it offers a new approach to
Blake’s corpus that builds on the literary and cultural
historical work of recent decades. Blake’s pronouncements about
law may often sound biblical in tone; but this book argues that
they directly address (and are informed by) eighteenth-century
legal debates concerning the origin of the English common law, the
autonomy of the judicature, the increasing legislative role of
Parliament, and the emergence of the notions of constitutionalism
and natural rights. Through a study of his illuminated books,
manuscript works, notebook drafts and annotations, this study
considers Blake’s understanding that law is both integral to
humanity itself and a core component of its potential fulfilment of
the ‘Human Form Divine’.
This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the
earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the
mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century
with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam in 1823,
and the dissolution of the East India Company's monopoly on the tea
trade in 1833.
This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the
earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the
mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century
with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam in 1823,
and the dissolution of the East India Company's monopoly on the tea
trade in 1833.
This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the
earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the
mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century
with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam in 1823,
and the dissolution of the East India Company's monopoly on the tea
trade in 1833.
This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the
earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the
mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century
with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam in 1823,
and the dissolution of the East India Company's monopoly on the tea
trade in 1833.
Tea has a rich and well-documented past. The beverage originated in
Asia long before making its way to seventeenth-century London,
where it became an exotic, highly sought-after commodity. Over the
subsequent two centuries, tea's powerful psychoactive properties
seduced British society, becoming popular across the nation from
castle to cottage. Now the world's most popular drink, tea was one
of the first truly global products to find a mass market, with tea
drinking now stereotypically associated with British identity. The
delicate flavour profile and hot preparation of tea inspired poets,
artists and satirists. Tea was embroiled in controversy, from the
gossip of the domestic tea table to the civil disorder occasioned
by smuggling and the political scandal of the Boston Tea Party.
Based on extensive original research, and now available in
paperback, Empire of Tea provides a rich cultural history that
explores how the British `way of tea' became the norm across the
Anglophone world.
This study offers an authoritative and readable account of the
hidden history of book theft in eighteenth-century London. It
exploits a rich primary source, the compelling narratives of crime
contained in the digitised Proceedings of the Old Bailey. The
authors explain how cases of book theft came to court, and how in
the ensuing trials the nature of the book itself became a question
for legal debate. They assess the motives which led Londoners to
steal books and the methods they employed in thefts from households
and booksellers. Finally, the authors ask what the Proceedings
tells us about the social ownership of books, and how the
phenomenon of book theft differently affected book producers and
consumers. Stealing Books in Eighteenth-Century London will appeal
to readers interested in the connected histories of metropolitan
life, crime, and the book in this period, and in the uses of
digital resources in humanities research.
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