A Treatise On the Commerce and Police of the River Thames
A Treatise On the Commerce and Police of the River Thames

Author: Patrick Colquhoun

Publisher: Franklin Classics

Published: 2018-10-11

Total Pages: 932

ISBN-13: 9780342520244

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A Treatise on the Commerce and Police of the River Thames
A Treatise on the Commerce and Police of the River Thames

Author: Patrick Colquhoun

Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions

Published: 2018-04-17

Total Pages: 734

ISBN-13: 9781379420538

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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. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. ++++ 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 T140607 The name and address of the printers are in square brackets. Text complete. In this impression, there is no colophon on p.676, the index is printed by H. Baldwin and Son (colophon), and press figures include: p.xxv-1; p.5-6; p.91-1; pp.322 and 383, no p London: printed for Joseph Mawman, successor to Mr. Dilly. MDCCC. H. Baldwin and Son, printers, [1800] [4], xxxiv,593, [1],609-676, [20]p., plate, tables: map; 8°

The Prison House of the Circuit
The Prison House of the Circuit

Author: Jeremy Packer

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 2023-03-07

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1452968489

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Has society ceded its self-governance to technogovernance? The Prison House of the Circuit presents a history of digital media using circuits and circuitry to understand how power operates in the contemporary era. Through the conceptual vocabulary of the circuit, it offers a provocative model for thinking about governance and media. The authors, writing as a collective, provide a model for collective research and a genealogical framework that interrogates the rise of digital society through the lens of Foucault’s ideas of governance, circulation, and power. The book includes five in-depth case studies investigating the transition from analog media to electronic and digital forms: military telegraphy and human–machine incorporation, the establishment of national electronic biopolitical governance in World War I, media as the means of extending spatial and temporal policing, automobility as the mechanism uniting mobility and media, and visual augmentation from Middle Ages spectacles to digital heads-up displays. The Prison House of the Circuit ultimately demonstrates how contemporary media came to create frictionless circulation to maximize control, efficacy, and state power.

A Treatise on the Commerce and Police of the River Thames
A Treatise on the Commerce and Police of the River Thames

Author: Patrick Colquhoun

Publisher: Nabu Press

Published: 2014-02

Total Pages: 934

ISBN-13: 9781295703135

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Perfecting the Union
Perfecting the Union

Author: Max M. Edling

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2020-12-11

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0197534732

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For most of the twentieth century, the American founding has been presented as a struggle between social classes over issues arising primarily within, rather than outside, the United States. But in recent years, new scholarship has instead turned to the international history of the American union to interpret both the causes and the consequences of the US Constitution. In Perfecting the Union, Max M. Edling argues that the Constitution was created to defend US territorial integrity and the national interest from competitors in the western borderlands and on the Atlantic Ocean, and to defuse inter-state tension within the union. By replacing the defunct Articles of Confederation, the Constitution profoundly transformed the structure of the American union by making the national government more effective. But it did not transform the fundamental purpose of the union, which remained a political organization designed to manage inter-state and international relations. And in contrast to what many scholars claim, it was never meant to eclipse the state governments. The Constitution created a national government but did not significantly extend its remit. The result was a dual structure of government, in which the federal government and the states were both essential to the people's welfare. Getting the story about the Constitution straight matters, Edling claims, because it makes possible a broader assessment of the American founding as both a transformative event, aiming at territorial and economic expansion, and as a conservative event, aiming at the preservation of key elements of the colonial socio-political order.