The Sense of the People

The Sense of the People

Author: Kathleen Wilson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1995-07-28

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 9780521340724

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This book, first published in 1995, demonstrates the central role of 'people', the empire, and the citizen in eighteenth-century English popular politics. It shows how the wide-ranging political culture of English towns attuned ordinary men and women to the issues of state power and thus enabled them to stake their own claims in national and imperial affairs.


The Witches Pharmacopoeia

The Witches Pharmacopoeia

Author: Robert Fletcher

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-12-01

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 9781540745743

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"The Witches Pharmacopoeia" is one of the better academic works dealing with the use of herbs and other things within the traditional workings of witchery both real and fraudulent. Speaking of Shakespearean verse, ancient tales from pagan tradition, and the burning times, it speaks of more than just wolfsbane and nightshade. Delivered by the assistant librarian to the US Surgeon General at the time, the work sums up a tradition found through centuries of grimoires and other literature within the occult.


The Persistence of Empire

The Persistence of Empire

Author: Eliga H. Gould

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2011-02-01

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0807899879

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The American Revolution was the longest colonial war in modern British history and Britain's most humiliating defeat as an imperial power. In this lively, concise book, Eliga Gould examines an important yet surprisingly understudied aspect of the conflict: the British public's predominantly loyal response to its government's actions in North America. Gould attributes British support for George III's American policies to a combination of factors, including growing isolationism in regard to the European continent and a burgeoning sense of the colonies as integral parts of a greater British nation. Most important, he argues, the British public accepted such ill-conceived projects as the Stamp Act because theirs was a sedentary, "armchair" patriotism based on paying others to fight their battles for them. This system of military finance made Parliament's attempt to tax the American colonists look unexceptional to most Britons and left the metropolitan public free to embrace imperial projects of all sorts--including those that ultimately drove the colonists to rebel. Drawing on nearly one thousand political pamphlets as well as on broadsides, private memoirs, and popular cartoons, Gould offers revealing insights into eighteenth-century British political culture and a refreshing account of what the Revolution meant to people on both sides of the Atlantic.