The Beauties of All the Magazines Selected. ... Including the Several Original Comic Pieces. to Be Continued the Middle of Every Month. ... of 3; Volume 3

The Beauties of All the Magazines Selected. ... Including the Several Original Comic Pieces. to Be Continued the Middle of Every Month. ... of 3; Volume 3

Author: MULTIPLE CONTRIBUTORS.

Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions

Published: 2018-04-21

Total Pages: 586

ISBN-13: 9781385062494

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. This collection reveals the history of English common law and Empire law in a vastly changing world of British expansion. Dominating the legal field is the Commentaries of the Law of England by Sir William Blackstone, which first appeared in 1765. Reference works such as almanacs and catalogues continue to educate us by revealing the day-to-day workings of society. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T194929 Edited by George Alexander Stevens. Each volume contains twelve monthly issues with a general titlepage and contents leaf. No more published?. London: printed for T. Waller, MCXXLII [1762]-64. 3v.: ill.; 8°


Coffeehouse Culture in the Atlantic World, 1650-1789

Coffeehouse Culture in the Atlantic World, 1650-1789

Author: E. Wesley Reynolds

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2022-03-10

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1350247235

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This book argues that coffeehouses and the coffee trade were central to the making of the Atlantic world in the century leading up to the American Revolution. Fostering international finance and commerce, spreading transatlantic news, building military might, determining political fortunes and promoting status and consumption, coffeehouses created a web of social networks stretching from Britain to its colonies in North America. As polite alternatives to taverns, coffeehouses have been hailed as 'penny universities'; a place for political discussion by the educated and elite. Reynolds shows that they were much more than this. Coffeehouse Culture in the Atlantic World 1650-1789, reveals that they simultaneously created a network for marine insurance and naval protection, led to calls for a free press, built tension between trade lobbyists and the East India Company, and raised questions about gender, respectability and the polite middling class. It demonstrates how coffeehouses served to create transatlantic connections between metropole Britain and her North American colonies and played an important role in the revolution and protest movements that followed.


Dissecting the Criminal Corpse

Dissecting the Criminal Corpse

Author: Elizabeth T. Hurren

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-08-17

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1137582499

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Those convicted of homicide were hanged on the public gallows before being dissected under the Murder Act in Georgian England. Yet, from 1752, whether criminals actually died on the hanging tree or in the dissection room remained a medical mystery in early modern society. Dissecting the Criminal Corpse takes issue with the historical cliché of corpses dangling from the hangman’s rope in crime studies. Some convicted murderers did survive execution in early modern England. Establishing medical death in the heart-lungs-brain was a physical enigma. Criminals had large bull-necks, strong willpowers, and hearty survival instincts. Extreme hypothermia often disguised coma in a prisoner hanged in the winter cold. The youngest and fittest were capable of reviving on the dissection table. Many died under the lancet. Capital legislation disguised a complex medical choreography that surgeons staged. They broke the Hippocratic Oath by executing the Dangerous Dead across England from 1752 until 1832. This book is open access under a CC-BY license.


Augustan Subjects

Augustan Subjects

Author: Albert J. Rivero

Publisher: University of Delaware Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780874136166

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The fifteen essays in this volume, written by friends, colleagues, and former students, attempt both to acknowledge and to honor Martin C. Battestin's many contributions to our understanding of the literature and art of the so-called Augustan period.