Reforming Ideas in Britain

Reforming Ideas in Britain

Author: Mark Philp

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 1107027284

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An important re-evaluation of radicalism, loyalism and republicanism in British political thought during the French Revolution.


A Reforming People

A Reforming People

Author: David D. Hall

Publisher: Knopf

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0679441174

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Distinguished historian Hall presents a revelatory account of New England's Puritans that shows them to have been the most daring and successful reformers of the Anglo-colonial world.


Reforming Philosophy

Reforming Philosophy

Author: Laura J. Snyder

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2010-11-15

Total Pages: 397

ISBN-13: 0226767353

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The Victorian period in Britain was an “age of reform.” It is therefore not surprising that two of the era’s most eminent intellects described themselves as reformers. Both William Whewell and John Stuart Mill believed that by reforming philosophy—including the philosophy of science—they could effect social and political change. But their divergent visions of this societal transformation led to a sustained and spirited controversy that covered morality, politics, science, and economics. Situating their debate within the larger context of Victorian society and its concerns, Reforming Philosophy shows how two very different men captured the intellectual spirit of the day and engaged the attention of other scientists and philosophers, including the young Charles Darwin. Mill—philosopher, political economist, and Parliamentarian—remains a canonical author of Anglo-American philosophy, while Whewell—Anglican cleric, scientist, and educator—is now often overlooked, though in his day he was renowned as an authority on science. Placing their teachings in their proper intellectual, cultural, and argumentative spheres, Laura Snyder revises the standard views of these two important Victorian figures, showing that both men’s concerns remain relevant today. A philosophically and historically sensitive account of the engagement of the major protagonists of Victorian British philosophy, Reforming Philosophy is the first book-length examination of the dispute between Mill and Whewell in its entirety. A rich and nuanced understanding of the intellectual spirit of Victorian Britain, it will be welcomed by philosophers and historians of science, scholars of Victorian studies, and students of the history of philosophy and political economy.


Reforming Ideas in Britain

Reforming Ideas in Britain

Author: Fellow and Tutor in Politics Mark Philp

Publisher:

Published: 2014-05-14

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 9781107516663

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An important re-evaluation of radicalism, loyalism and republicanism in British political thought during the French Revolution.


Reinventing Britain

Reinventing Britain

Author: Andrew McDonald

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2007-10-30

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0520098625

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"First [originally] published in Great Britain in 2007 by Politico's Publishing ..."--Title page verso.


Henry Redhead Yorke, Colonial Radical

Henry Redhead Yorke, Colonial Radical

Author: Amanda Goodrich

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-02-07

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 0429618832

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This is a political, cultural and intellectual biography of the neglected but important figure, Henry Redhead Yorke. A West Indian of African/British descent, born into a slave society but educated in Georgian England, he developed a complex identity to which politics was key. The most revolutionary radical in Britain between 1793-5, Yorke then recanted his radicalism and died a loyalist gentleman. This book raises important issues about the impact of "outsider" politics in England and the complexities of politicization and identity construction in the Atlantic World. It restores a forgotten black writer to his due place in history.


Ephemeral Print Culture in Early Modern England

Ephemeral Print Culture in Early Modern England

Author: Tim Somers

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 1783275499

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Uses the collections of ephemera popular in the late seventeenth century as a way to understand the reading habits, publishing strategies and thought processes of late Stuart print culture. Cheap' genres of print such as ballads, almanacs and playing cards were part of everyday life in seventeenth-century society - ubiquitous and disposable. Toward the end of the century, however, individuals began to preserve, arrange and display articles of cheap print within carefully curated collections. What motivated this sudden urge to preserve the ephemeral? This book answers that question by analysing the social, political and intellectual factors behind the formation of cheap print collections, how these collections were used by their owners, and what this activity can tell us about 'print culture' in the early modern period. The book's central collector is John Bagford (1650-1715), a shoemaker who became a dealer of prints and other 'curiosities' to important collectors of the time such as Samuel Pepys, Hans Sloane and Robert Harley. Bagford's own rich and largely unstudied collection is afascinating study in its own right and his position at the centre of commercial and intellectual networks opens up a whole world of collecting. This world encompasses later Stuart partisan political culture, when modern parties and the 'public sphere' first emerged; the 'New Science' and 'virtuoso culture' with its milieu of natural philosophers, antiquaries and artisans; the aural and visual landscape of marketplaces, streets and alehouses; and developing practices of record-keeping, life-writing and historical writing during the long eighteenth century.


The Forging of the Modern State

The Forging of the Modern State

Author: Eric J. Evans

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-06

Total Pages: 642

ISBN-13: 1317873718

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In this hugely ambitious history of Britain, Eric Evans surveys every aspect of the period in which the country was transformed into the world’s first industrial power. This was an era of revolutionary change unparalleled in Britain, yet one in which transformation was achieved without political revolution. The unique combination of transition and revolution is a major theme in the book, which ranges across the embryonic empire, the Church, education, health, finance, and rural and urban life. Evans gives particular attention to the Great Reform Act of 1832. The Third Edition includes an entirely new introductory chapter, and is illustrated for the first time.


Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine

Author: J. C. D. Clark

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018-03-16

Total Pages: 483

ISBN-13: 0192548999

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Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was England's greatest revolutionary: no other reformer was as actively involved in events of the scale of the American and French Revolutions, and none wrote such best-selling texts with the impact of Common Sense and Rights of Man. No one else combined the roles of activist and theorist, or did so in the 'age of revolutions', fundamental as it was to the emergence of the 'modern world'. But his fame meant that he was taken up and reinterpreted for current use by successive later commentators and politicians, so that the 'historic Paine' was too often obscured by the 'usable Paine'. J. C. D. Clark explains Paine against a revised background of early- and mid-eighteenth-century England. He argues that Paine knew and learned less about events in America and France than was once thought. He de-attributes a number of publications, and passages, hitherto assumed to have been Paine's own, and detaches him from a number of causes (including anti-slavery, women's emancipation, and class action) with which he was once associated. Paine's formerly obvious association with the early origin and long-term triumph of natural rights, republicanism, and democracy needs to be rethought. As a result, Professor Clark offers a picture of radical and reforming movements as more indebted to the initiatives of large numbers of men and women in fast-evolving situations than to the writings of a few individuals who framed lasting, and eventually triumphant, political discourses.