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Selected Papers

Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, 1750-1850

Subscription campaigns often were organized to V, 40-71, and Sylvia Neely, Lafayette and the Liberal Ideal 1814 -1824 (Carbondale and Edwardsville, 111., 1991), 42-58. 9See Sylvia Neely, "Rural politics in the early Restoration: Charles  ...
Stories from Home: English Domestic Interiors, 1750–1850

Stories from Home: English Domestic Interiors, 1750–1850

Dr Margaret Ponsonby

English Domestic Interiors, 1750–1850 Dr Margaret Ponsonby. men, and the limitations on the public role of homes headed by a spinster or widow. Chapter 5 deals with what 1 am terming 'incomplete' households since they did not contain a ...
Africa's Discovery of Europe: 1450-1850

Africa's Discovery of Europe: 1450-1850

David Northrup

The book concludes with an examination of the roles of race, class, and culture in early modern times, and suggests which themes in Africa's continuing discovery of Europe after 1850 were similar to earlier patterns, and why some themes ...
Revolutionary Europe, 1780-1850

Revolutionary Europe, 1780-1850

Jonathan Sperber

Providing a continent-wide history, this major survey covers the key political events of this turbulent period. Jonathan Sperber also looks at lives of ordinary people and considers broad social and economic developments.
Policing and prosecution in Britain, 1750-1850

Policing and prosecution in Britain, 1750-1850

Douglas Hay

Here, Hay and Snyder show how that old system emerged, and explore its place in state power, class relations, and constitutional theory.
Distance, Theatre, and the Public Voice, 1750–1850

Distance, Theatre, and the Public Voice, 1750–1850

M. Nuss

Nuss explores the ways in which theatre helped authors imagine connecting with a new mass audience.
UK Wind Energy Technologies

UK Wind Energy Technologies

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Peter Tavner who was instrumental, along with Prof. Bill Leithead and other consortium members, in re-establishing significant wind energy research activity in UK universities through the SUPERGEN Wind Consortium. This page intentionally ...
Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000

Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000

Geoff Eley

In Europe, Geoff Eley convincingly shows, democracy did not evolve organically out of a natural consensus, the achievement of prosperity, or the negative cement of the Cold War.
Revolutionary America, 1750-1815: Sources and Interpretation

Revolutionary America, 1750-1815: Sources and Interpretation

Cynthia A. Kierner

Unique in both coverage and focus, this collection of primary documents and original interpretive essays provides an unusually well-balanced introduction to the era of the American Revolution.
Distance, Theatre, and the Public Voice, 1750–1850

Distance, Theatre, and the Public Voice, 1750–1850

M. Nuss

For glasses of wineand fine conversation, I'm indebtedto Romanticists Elisa Beshero Bondar andSamantha Webb; closer tohome I've depended on my colleagues atthe University of Texas Pan American,especially David Anshen and Caroline ...
The Labouring Classes in Early Industrial England, 1750-1850

The Labouring Classes in Early Industrial England, 1750-1850

John Rule

P. E. Razzell and R. W. Wainwright (eds), The Victorian Working Class: Selections from Letters to the Morning Chronicle, Cass, 1973, p. 45. Ibid., pp. 17 —18. Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776 edn, E. Cannan 1904 pbk, 1961, I, pp.
Connoisseurs and medieval miniatures, 1750-1850

Connoisseurs and medieval miniatures, 1750-1850

Alan Noel Latimer Munby

78 Philip Augustus Hanrott His judgment of quality, however [wrote Mr. Hobson], matured progressively. Of his first purchase, at the La Valliere sale, he wrote that it was 'glittering with gold letters and curious miniatures — where among other ...
Intimations of Modernity: Civil Culture in ...

Intimations of Modernity: Civil Culture in ...

Louis A. Pérez Jr.

In Reguring the Coquette: Essays on Culture and Coquetry, edited by Shelley King and Yaël Schlick, 13–35. Lewisburg, Penn., 2008. Knight, Franklin W. “ Origins of Wealth and the Sugar Revolution in Cuba, 1750–1850.” Hispanic American ...
The Political Economy of Merchant Empires: State Power and ...

The Political Economy of Merchant Empires: State Power and ...

James D. Tracy

This book focuses on why Europe became the dominant economic force in global trade between 1450 and 1750.
German Women as Letter Writers, 1750-1850

German Women as Letter Writers, 1750-1850

Lorely French

Examples of women's friendship, as in the letters of Meta Moller Klopstock, Louise Gottsched, and Helmina von Chezy, emphasize the public nature that women's private letters could assume through expansive circles of correspondents.
War, Culture and Society in Early Modern South Asia, 1740-1849

War, Culture and Society in Early Modern South Asia, 1740-1849

Kaushik Roy

However, the three feudal monarchies of India did not get adequate time to create centralized institutions for governance.33 In 2008, Peter Lorge asserted that the EIC by initiating a Military Revolution between 1750 and 1850 gained military ...
The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History

Alvin Jackson

... Ireland, 1750–1850: Essays in Tribute to Peter Jupp (Belfast, 2007), 283–303. she wrote under the pen name of speranza and was the mother of oscar Wilde. see Karen sasha anthony tipper, A Critical Biography of Lady Jane Wilde, 1821?
Creating Irish Tourism: The First Century, 1750-1850

Creating Irish Tourism: The First Century, 1750-1850

William H. A. Williams

In addition to period travel writing, this work draws upon recent scholarship in the fields of tourism and travel studies to produce the first investigation of the history of the initial century of Irish tourism.
City of Order: Crime and Society in Halifax, 1918-35

City of Order: Crime and Society in Halifax, 1918-35

Michael Boudreau

Douglas Hay, Peter Linebaugh, John G. Rule, E.P. Thompson, and Cal Winslow, 17-63. New York: Penguin Books, 1975. Hay, Douglas, and Francis Snyder, eds. Policing and Prosecution in Britain, 1750-1850. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989.
Shipping and Economic Growth 1350-1850

Shipping and Economic Growth 1350-1850

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Shipping was the most dynamic sector of the economy of Europe from the fourteenth into the nineteenth century.
The Feminization of Fame 1750- 830

The Feminization of Fame 1750- 830

Claire Brock

This book addresses the literary, cultural and historical questions surrounding the reconceptualization of fame between 1750-1830.
Police Detectives in History, 1750-1950

Police Detectives in History, 1750-1950

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Clive Emsley, Haia Shpayer-Makov. Chapter. Two. Tips,. Traps. and. Tropes: Catching. Thieves. in. Post-Revolutionary. Paris. Howard. G. Brown. Si les brigands, a l'approche de l'hiver, redoublent d'audace, le bureau central saura aussi ...
Arts of the 19th Century: 1850-1905

Arts of the 19th Century: 1850-1905

William Vaughan

Revolution and profusion -- these are the hallmarks of Western art from 1780 to 1850.
Papers on Far Eastern History

Papers on Far Eastern History

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The Revolutionary Army, the most influential revolutionary pamphlet ever produced, was written by a young ardent revolutionary, Tsou Jung. Tsou was born in Szechwan, and left his home in l90l to go to Shanghai where he came under some ...
Revolutionaries

Revolutionaries

Eric Hobsbawm

A collection of essays which represent a lifetime's writing,lectures & thoughts on revolutionary modern political developments throughout Europe.
Old Put; Or, the Days of Seventy-Six

Old Put; Or, the Days of Seventy-Six

Harry Hazel

Other works include: Old Put; or, The Days of Seventy-Six (1850), The Brigand; or, The Mountain Chief (1852), The Rebel Bride: A Revolutionary Romance (1853), The Smuggler King!; or, The Rovers of the Antilles (1855), The Pirate's Son: A ...

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