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Author: N. J. G. Pounds
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994-05-27
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9780521466714
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis wide-ranging book, first published in 1994, traces the development of popular culture in England from the Iron Age to the eighteenth century.
Author: Russell Kirk
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-12
Total Pages: 183
ISBN-13: 1351532200
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is an incontestable fact of history that the United States, although a multiethnic nation, derives its language, mores, political purposes, and institutions from Great Britain. The two nations share a common history, religious heritage, pattern of law and politics, and a body of great literature. Yet, America cannot be wholly confident that this heritage will endure forever. Declining standards in education and the strident claims of multiculturalists threaten to sever the vital Anglo-American link that ensures cultural order and continuity. In "America's British Culture", now in paperback, Russell Kirk offers a brilliant summary account and spirited defense of the culture that the people of the United States have inherited from Great Britain. Kirk discerns four essential areas of influence. The language and literature of England carried with it a tradition of liberty and order as well as certain assumptions about the human condition and ethical conduct. American common and positive law, being derived from English law, gives fuller protection to the individual than does the legal system of any other country. The American form of representative government is patterned on the English parliamentary system. Finally, there is the body of mores - moral habits, beliefs, conventions, customs - that compose an ethical heritage. Elegantly written and deeply learned, "America's British Culture" is an insightful inquiry into history and a plea for cultural renewal and continuity. Adam De Vore in "The Michigan Review" said of the book: "A compact but stimulating tract...a contribution to an over-due cultural renewal and reinvigoration...Kirk evinces an increasingly uncommon reverence for historical accuracy, academic integrity and the understanding of one's cultural heritage," and Merrie Cave in "The Salisbury Review" said of the author: "Russell Kirk has been one of the most important influences in the revival of American conservatism since the fifties. [Kirk] belongs to an
Author: Norman John Greville Pounds
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 477
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Andrea Ruddick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-11-21
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13: 1107007267
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of the nature of national sentiment in fourteenth-century England, in its political and constitutional context.
Author: Ladislav Vobr
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9788090134843
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Lovejoy
Publisher: Anglo-Saxon Books
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 120
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work is the result of the author's many journeys to all parts of the world, where he found indigenous peoples taking pride in maintaining their communal history and identity. He also demonstrates that the English are not doing what is necessary to maintain a distinct culture and way of life.
Author: Mike Storry
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-02-15
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1136252215
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn British Cultural Identities, Mike Storry and Peter Childs assess the degree to which being British impinges on the identity of the many people who live in Britain. They analyze contemporary British identity through the various and changing ways in which people who live in the UK position themselves and are positioned by their culture today. Using examples from contemporary and popular culture, each chapter covers one of seven intersecting themes: place and environment education, work and leisure gender, sex and the family youth culture and style class and politics ethnicity and language religion and heritage. This new edition is fully updated to include Britain's relationship with the wider world, changes in university education and testing in schools, the trend towards electronic entertainment and social networking, the new impact of 'class', and the culture of political leaking.
Author: Kathleen Wilson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995-07-28
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780521340724
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Christopher Durston
Publisher: Red Globe Press
Published: 1996-01-24
Total Pages: 344
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays is intended to contribute to the debate on the nature and extent of early-modern puritanism. It highlights several important aspects of this culture, such as sermon gadding, fasting, the strict observance of Sunday and iconoclasm.
Author: John Brewer
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-03-12
Total Pages: 566
ISBN-13: 113591236X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Pleasures of the Imagination examines the birth and development of English "high culture" in the eighteenth century. It charts the growth of a literary and artistic world fostered by publishers, theatrical and musical impresarios, picture dealers and auctioneers, and presented to th public in coffee-houses, concert halls, libraries, theatres and pleasure gardens. In 1660, there were few professional authors, musicians and painters, no public concert series, galleries, newspaper critics or reviews. By the dawn of the nineteenth century they were all aprt of the cultural life of the nation. John Brewer's enthralling book explains how this happened and recreates the world in which the great works of English eighteenth-century art were made. Its purpose is to show how literature, painting, music and the theatre were communicated to a public increasingly avid for them. It explores the alleys and garrets of Grub Street, rummages the shelves of bookshops and libraries, peers through printsellers' shop windows and into artists' studios, and slips behind the scenes at Drury Lane and Covent Garden. It takes us out of Gay and Boswell's London to visit the debating clubs, poetry circles, ballrooms, concert halls, music festivals, theatres and assemblies that made the culture of English provincial towns, and shows us how the national landscape became one of Britain's greatest cultural treasures. It reveals to us a picture of English artistic and literary life in the eighteenth century less familiar, but more suprising, more various and more convincing than any we have seen before.
