UID:
almahu_9949369336802882
Format:
1 online resource (257 pages)
ISBN:
9781474405683
Content:
A broad, richly detailed examination of the cultural, political and social history of Britain's long eighteenth century.
Note:
Intro -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- H. T. Dickinson: An Appreciation -- Introduction -- Part I Parliament and Political Cultures -- CHAPTER 1. 'The Press Ought to be Open to All': From the Liberty of Conscience to the Liberty of the Press* -- CHAPTER 2. 'Could the Scots Become True British?' The Prelude to the Scottish Peerage Bill, 1706-16* -- CHAPTER 3. Parliament and Church Reform: Off and On the Agenda* -- CHAPTER 4. Liberty, Property and the Post-Culloden Acts of Parliament in the Gàidhealtachd * -- CHAPTER 5. Political Toasting in the Age of Revolutions: Britain, America and France, 1765-1800 -- Part II Beyond Liberty and Property -- CHAPTER 6. Edmund Burke, Dissent and Church and State -- CHAPTER 7. 'The Wisest and Most Beneficial Schemes': William Ogilvie, Radical Political Economy and the Scottish Enlightenment -- CHAPTER 8. Thomas Spence and James Harrington: A Case Study in Influence -- CHAPTER 9. Thomas Spence, Children's Literature and 'Learning . . . Debauched by Ambition' -- Part III The Long and Wide 1790s -- CHAPTER 10. British Radical Attitudes towards the United States of America in the 1790s: The Case of William Winterbotham* -- CHAPTER 11. Was there a Law of Sedition in Scotland? Baron David Hume's Analysis of the Scottish Sedition Trials of 1794 -- CHAPTER 12. The Vilifi cation of Thomas Paine: Constructing a Folk Devil in the 1790s -- CHAPTER 13. Nelson's Circles: Networking in the Navy during the French Wars -- CHAPTER 14. The Posthumous Lives of Thomas Muir -- Appendix: Selected List of H. T. Dickinson's Publications, 1964-2015 -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Pentland, Gordon Liberty, Property and Popular Politics Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,c2017 ISBN 9781474405676
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.