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Much has been written about the British army's campaigns during the
many wars it fought in the eighteenth century, but for over 150
years no one has attempted to produce a history of the army as an
institution during this period. That is why Stephen Conway's
perceptive and detailed study is so timely and important. Taking
into account the latest scholarship, he considers the army's legal
status, political control and administration, its system of
recruitment, the relationships between officers and men, and the
social and economic as well as constitutional interactions of the
army with British and other societies. Throughout the book a key
theme is order and control. How did a small number of officers
exercise authority over large numbers of common soldiers?
Traditionally the answer has focused on the role of a draconian
system of corporal and capital punishment - by extensive use of the
lash and the rope. Yet no institution can function through fear
alone and he shows that the obedience of its common soldiers had to
be negotiated by their officers who were very aware of their men's
sense of their entitlements, and their conception of military
service as contractual. By uncovering the mental world of both
officers and common soldiers, Stephen Conway offers a very
different view of how the British army operated between the
Hanoverian succession and the end of the War of American
Independence. His work will be fascinating reading for all students
of British military history.
Generous Ecclesiology seeks to present a positive theological
response to the issues raised by Mission-Shaped Church and For the
Parish. The former reminds us that the church is to engage in
creative and imaginative ways with our missionary calling. The
latter affirms the place of inherited patterns and structures which
cannot simply be discarded. Alert to the danger that discussion
about tradition and innovation can become polarized; the editors
recognize that living in relation to a generous God shapes our
ecclesiology. This vocation is formed by a double constitution of
worship and mission. This vocation is for the sake of the Kingdom
of God. Generous Ecclesiology takes as its basis the uniqueness of
the church's calling in God's world, a world embraced by the
generosity of his love. This collection is a contribution to an
ongoing conversation; to this end, it engages with a rich range of
dialogue partners, historically, ecumenically and culturally as
well as theologically. It seeks to offer a rigorous theological
resource - inspiring us to drink deeply of the wells of our
tradition and inherited patterns. Whether implicitly or explicitly,
these essays reflect on or are shaped by the ordinary concerns,
challenges and opportunities of ministry.
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Pilgrim is a major new teaching and discipleship resource from the
Church of England. It will help enquirers and new Christians
explore what it means to travel through life with Jesus Christ. A
Christian course for the twenty-first century, Pilgrim offers an
approach of participation, not persuasion. Enquirers are encouraged
to practice the ancient disciplines of biblical reflection and
prayer, exploring key texts that have helped people since the
earliest days of the Christian faith. Believing that the Christian
faith is primarily about relationship, Pilgrim aims to lay a
foundation for a lifetime of learning more about God's love
revealed in Jesus Christ and what it means to be his disciple.
Assuming little or no knowledge of the Christian faith, Pilgrim can
be used at any point on the journey of discipleship and by every
tradition in the Church of England. Pilgrim is made up of two
parts: Follow and Grow. Each consists of four short courses and a
leaders' guide. Follow introduces the Christian faith for complete
beginners, while Grow aims to develop a deeper level of
discipleship in those who have turned to Christ. Each short course
contains six-sessions, supported by online audio-visual resources.
All sessions combine a simple framework prayer, reflection on the
Bible in the lectio divina style, an article by a modern writer,
and time for questions and reflection. The first book in the Follow
Stage, Turning to Christ, explores the questions candidates are
asked when they decide to become followers of Jesus.
This book aims to bring state expenditure into the debate over the
construction of modern states. It has traditionally been argued
that the differences in state development could be put down to the
state's particular systems and methods for raising warfare
resources. Historians have long stressed that the different levels
of state development on a world level should be explained in terms
of the origin and management of fiscal and financial resources. But
this historical research did not pay the same attention to how that
income was spent. This book aims to redress the balance by focusing
on expenditure. As the book shows, there were glaring inter-state
differences in expenditure management and analysis that may help to
explain the patchy development of modern states. A wide-ranging
trawl of national cases, all centred on the long eighteenth
century, shows the consequences of different expenditure policies
and management methods on the underlying state and economy. This
book offers a broad panorama of national cases to show how warfare
expenditure could become a source of problems for some states and a
source of opportunities and growth for others.
The American war against British imperial rule (1775-1783) was the
world's first great popular revolution. Ideologically defined by
the colonists' formal Declaration of Independence in 1776, the
struggle has taken on something of a mythic character. From the
Boston Tea Party to Paul Revere's ride to raise the countryside of
New England against the march of the Redcoats; and from the
American travails of Bunker Hill (1775) to the final humiliation of
the British at Yorktown (1781), the entire contest is now
emblematic of American national identity. Stephen Conway shows
that, beyond mythology, this was more than just a local conflict:
rather a titanic struggle between France and Britain. The Thirteen
Colonies were merely one frontline of an extended theatre of
operations, with each superpower aiming to deliver the knockout
blow. This bold new history recognizes the war as the Revolution
but situates it on the wider, global canvas of European warfare.
How should the Eucharist be celebrated? What is the connection
between the celebration of the Eucharist and the rest of our lives?
In this book leading writers associated with the Affirming
Catholicism movement present markersfor 'best practice' in the new
era of common Worship. Each contributor discussed a different part
of the eucharist liturgy in turn, not only deepening our
understanding of it but helping us to live it with joy.
The last decade has seen a major shift in the way
nineteenth-century American history is interpreted, and increasing
attention is being paid to the market revolution occurring between
1815 and the Civil War. This collection of twelve essays by
preeminent scholars in nineteenth-century history aims to respond
to Charles Sellers's The Market Revolution, reflecting upon the
historiographic accomplishments initiated by his work, while at the
same time advancing the argument across a range of fields.
Britain's separateness from the rest of Europe is often taken as
read. For generations, historians have presented Britain as
exceptional and different. In recent years an emphasis on the
Atlantic and imperial aspects of British history, and on the
importance of the nation and national identity, has made Britain
and Ireland seem even more distant from the neighbouring Continent.
Stephen Conway's study offers a different perspective on
eighteenth-century Britain and Ireland's relationship with
continental Europe. It acknowledges areas of difference and
distinctiveness, but points to areas of similarity. It accepts that
both Britain and Ireland were part of an Atlantic and wider
imperial world, but highlights their under-recognized connections
with the rest of Europe. And, perhaps most ambitiously of all, it
suggests that if the British and Irish thought and acted in
national terms, they were also able, in the appropriate
circumstances, to see themselves as Europeans.
Other historians have opened up parts of this subject, presenting a
more rounded picture than exceptionalist narratives allow,
stressing convergence rather than divergence, establishing
important connections and exploring their ramifications; but none
have attempted such a panoramic view. Conway presents a case for
our regarding eighteenth-century Britain and Ireland as integral
parts of Europe, and for our appreciating that this was the
perspective of many of the British and Irish at the time.
This book explores the impact of the wars of 1739-63 on Britain and
Ireland. The period was dominated by armed struggle between Britain
and the Bourbon powers, particularly France. These wars, especially
the Seven Years War of 1756-63, saw a considerable mobilization of
manpower, materiel and money. They had important affects on the
British and Irish economies, on social divisions and the
development of what we might term social policy, on popular and
parliamentary politics, on religion, on national sentiment, and on
the nature and scale of Britain's overseas possessions and
attitudes to empire.
To fight these wars, partnerships of various kinds were necessary.
Partnership with European allies was recognized, at least by parts
of the political nation, to be essential to the pursuit of victory.
Partnership with the North American colonies was also seen as
imperative to military success. Within Britain and Ireland,
partnerships were no less important. The peoples of the different
nations of the two islands were forced into partnership, or entered
into it willingly, in order to fight the conflicts of the period
and to resist Bourbon invasion threats. At the level of 'high'
politics, the Seven Years War saw the forming of an informal
partnership between Whigs and Tories in support of the
Pitt-Newcastle government's prosecution of the war. The various
Protestant denominations - established churches and Dissenters -
were brought into a form of partnership based on Protestant
solidarity in the face of the Catholic threat from France and
Spain. And, perhaps above all, partnerships were forged between the
British state and local and private interest in order to secure the
necessarymobilization of men, resources, and money.
This book examines a hitherto neglected aspect of the War of
American Independence, providing the first wide-ranging account of
the impact of this eighteenth-century conflict upon the politics,
economy, society and culture of the British Isles. The author
examines the level of military participation - which was much
greater than is usually appreciated - and explores the war's
effects on subjects as varied as parliamentary reform, religious
toleration and attitudes to empire. The books casts new light upon
recent debate about the war-waging efficiency of the British state,
and on the role of war in the creation of a sense of 'Britishness'.
The thematic chapters are supplemented by local case studies of six
very different communities the length and breadth of the British
Isles.
This is the tenth volume of the Correspondence produced in the new
edition of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham. The great
majority of the letters have never before been published. They
illustrate the composition, editing, publication, and reception of
several of his works. The volume reveals Bentham's attempts to
influence developments in France, the USA, Greece, Spain, Portugal,
and South America. Despite Bentham's importance as jurist,
philosopher, and social scientist, and leader of the Utilitarian
reformers, the only previous edition of his works was a poorly
edited and incomplete one brought out within a decade or so of his
death. This new critical edition of his works and correspondence is
being prepared by the Bentham Committee of University College
London.
This is the ninth volume of the Correspondence produced in the new
edition of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham. The letters--the
vast majority of which have never before been published--date from
the period of January 1817 to June 1820 and illustrate many aspects
of Bentham's public and private life. The composition, editing,
printing, publishing, and receipt of several of his writings are
discussed, while the correspondence with his secretary and protege,
John Herbert Koe, gives a unique insight to Bentham's working
methods. The proposed Chrestomathic School is the subject of many
of the letters of 1820, though even in that year Bentham's
involvement in the world of radical politics emerges clearly. The
volume also testifies to his burgeoning international reputation,
and to his interest in reform in North and South America, Russia,
Spain, France, and Geneva.
This is the eighth volume of the Correspondence produced in the new
edition of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham. Nearly
three-quarters of the letters included in this eighth volume of
Correspondence have not been previously published. During the years
covered by this volume, Bentham's Panopticon penitentiary scheme
was finally rejected by the government; and his efforts to secure
its implementation, and then to gain adequate compensation, form a
major and recurring theme. But the letters do much more than
complete the Panopticon saga. They give an insight into Bentham's
relations with his editors and followers Etienne Dumont and James
Mill, and provide information on the writing, editing, and in some
cases, printing and publishing of works on law, politics, religion,
and education. Just as important is the clear impression the
correspondence gives of his contacts, especially with the legal and
political reformers of the day. Prior to these new volumes, the
only edition of Bentham's works was a poorly edited and incomplete
one brought out within a decade or so of his death.
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