Author: John Kells Ingram
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
A History of Political Economy
Author: John Kells Ingram
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Secret Societies of the Middle Ages
Author: Thomas Keightley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Assassins (Ismailites)
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Assassins (Ismailites)
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Ruling the World
Author: Alan Lester
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108426204
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Reveals how the British Empire's governing men enforced their ideas of freedom, civilization and liberalism around the world.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108426204
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Reveals how the British Empire's governing men enforced their ideas of freedom, civilization and liberalism around the world.
The Mighty Experiment
Author: Seymour Drescher
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190291966
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
By the mid-eighteenth century, the transatlantic slave trade was considered to be a necessary and stabilizing factor in the capitalist economies of Europe and the expanding Americas. Britain was the most influential power in this system which seemed to have the potential for unbounded growth. In 1833, the British empire became the first to liberate its slaves and then to become a driving force toward global emancipation. There has been endless debate over the reasons behind this decision. This has been portrayed on the one hand as a rational disinvestment in a foundering overseas system, and on the other as the most expensive per capita expenditure for colonial reform in modern history. In this work, Seymour Drescher argues that the plan to end British slavery, rather than being a timely escape from a failing system, was, on the contrary, the crucial element in the greatest humanitarian achievement of all time. The Mighty Experiment explores how politicians, colonial bureaucrats, pamphleteers, and scholars taking anti-slavery positions validated their claims through rational scientific arguments going beyond moral and polemical rhetoric, and how the infiltration of the social sciences into this political debate was designed to minimize agitation on both sides and provide common ground. Those at the inception of the social sciences, such as Adam Smith and Thomas Malthus, helped to develop these tools to create an argument that touched on issues of demography, racism, and political economy. By the time British emancipation became legislation, it was being treated as a massive social experiment, whose designs, many thought, had the potential to change the world. This study outlines the relationship of economic growth to moral issues in regard to slavery, and will appeal to scholars of British history, nineteenth century imperial history, the history of slavery, and those interested in the history of human rights. The Mighty Experiment was the winner of First Prize, Frederick Douglass Book Prize, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190291966
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
By the mid-eighteenth century, the transatlantic slave trade was considered to be a necessary and stabilizing factor in the capitalist economies of Europe and the expanding Americas. Britain was the most influential power in this system which seemed to have the potential for unbounded growth. In 1833, the British empire became the first to liberate its slaves and then to become a driving force toward global emancipation. There has been endless debate over the reasons behind this decision. This has been portrayed on the one hand as a rational disinvestment in a foundering overseas system, and on the other as the most expensive per capita expenditure for colonial reform in modern history. In this work, Seymour Drescher argues that the plan to end British slavery, rather than being a timely escape from a failing system, was, on the contrary, the crucial element in the greatest humanitarian achievement of all time. The Mighty Experiment explores how politicians, colonial bureaucrats, pamphleteers, and scholars taking anti-slavery positions validated their claims through rational scientific arguments going beyond moral and polemical rhetoric, and how the infiltration of the social sciences into this political debate was designed to minimize agitation on both sides and provide common ground. Those at the inception of the social sciences, such as Adam Smith and Thomas Malthus, helped to develop these tools to create an argument that touched on issues of demography, racism, and political economy. By the time British emancipation became legislation, it was being treated as a massive social experiment, whose designs, many thought, had the potential to change the world. This study outlines the relationship of economic growth to moral issues in regard to slavery, and will appeal to scholars of British history, nineteenth century imperial history, the history of slavery, and those interested in the history of human rights. The Mighty Experiment was the winner of First Prize, Frederick Douglass Book Prize, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition.
A Companion to Crime Fiction
Author: Charles J. Rzepka
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119675774
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
A Companion to Crime Fiction presents the definitive guide to this popular genre from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day A collection of forty-seven newly commissioned essays from a team of leading scholars across the globe make this Companion the definitive guide to crime fiction Follows the development of the genre from its origins in the eighteenth century through to its phenomenal present day popularity Features full-length critical essays on the most significant authors and film-makers, from Arthur Conan Doyle and Dashiell Hammett to Alfred Hitchcock and Martin Scorsese exploring the ways in which they have shaped and influenced the field Includes extensive references to the most up-to-date scholarship, and a comprehensive bibliography
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119675774
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
A Companion to Crime Fiction presents the definitive guide to this popular genre from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day A collection of forty-seven newly commissioned essays from a team of leading scholars across the globe make this Companion the definitive guide to crime fiction Follows the development of the genre from its origins in the eighteenth century through to its phenomenal present day popularity Features full-length critical essays on the most significant authors and film-makers, from Arthur Conan Doyle and Dashiell Hammett to Alfred Hitchcock and Martin Scorsese exploring the ways in which they have shaped and influenced the field Includes extensive references to the most up-to-date scholarship, and a comprehensive bibliography
Guide to the Care and Use of Experimental Animals
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780919087101
Category : Animal experimentation
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780919087101
Category : Animal experimentation
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Prophetical, Educational, and Playing Cards
Author: Mrs. John King Van Rensselaer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fortune-telling by cards
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fortune-telling by cards
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The Letters of Anthony Trollope
Author: Anthony Trollope
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192121387
Category : Novelists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
A scholarly edition of the letters of Anthony Trollope. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192121387
Category : Novelists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
A scholarly edition of the letters of Anthony Trollope. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.
The Persianate World
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004387285
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
The Persianate World: Rethinking a Shared Sphere is among the first books to explore the pre-modern and early modern historical ties among such diverse regions as Anatolia, the Iranian plateau, Central Asia, Western Xinjiang, the Indian subcontinent, and southeast Asia, as well as the circumstances that reoriented these regions and helped break up the Persianate ecumene in modern times. Essays explore the modalities of Persianate culture, the defining features of the Persianate cosmopolis, religious practice and networks, the diffusion of literature across space, subaltern social groups, and the impact of technological advances on language. Taken together, the essays reflect the current scholarship in Persianate studies, and offer pathways for future research.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004387285
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
The Persianate World: Rethinking a Shared Sphere is among the first books to explore the pre-modern and early modern historical ties among such diverse regions as Anatolia, the Iranian plateau, Central Asia, Western Xinjiang, the Indian subcontinent, and southeast Asia, as well as the circumstances that reoriented these regions and helped break up the Persianate ecumene in modern times. Essays explore the modalities of Persianate culture, the defining features of the Persianate cosmopolis, religious practice and networks, the diffusion of literature across space, subaltern social groups, and the impact of technological advances on language. Taken together, the essays reflect the current scholarship in Persianate studies, and offer pathways for future research.
The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women's Writing
Author: Linda H. Peterson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107064848
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Innovative and comprehensive coverage of women writers' careers and literary achievements spanning many literary genres during the Victorian period.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107064848
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Innovative and comprehensive coverage of women writers' careers and literary achievements spanning many literary genres during the Victorian period.