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Liberty, property and popular politics : England and Scotland, 1688-1815 : essays in honour of H.T. Dickinson /

A broad, richly detailed examination of the cultural, political and social history of Britain's long eighteenth century. Few scholars can claim to have shaped the historical study of the long eighteenth century more profoundly than Professor H.T. Dickinson, who, until his retirement in 2006, he...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Pentland, Gordon (Editor ), Davis, Michael T., 1969- (Editor ), Dickinson, H. T. (honouree.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • "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.