Revisiting the Polite and Commercial People: Essays in Georgian Politics, Society, and Culture in Honour of Professor Paul Langford. Edited by Elaine Chalus and Perry Gauci. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2018. xvii, 270...
October 2019
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A trader of knowledge and government: Richard Houncell and the politics of enterprise, 1648–51
December 2016
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Revolutionary England, C.1630-c.1660 Essays for Clive Holmes
Revolutionary England presents a series of cutting-edge interventions by established and rising authorities in the field. These are intended to honour one of the most respected scholars of early modern England.
The Attack of the Creolian Powers: West Indians at the Parliamentary Elections of Mid-Georgian Britain, 1754-74
April 2014
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Parliament, Politics and Policy in Britain and Ireland, c.1680 - 1832 Essays in Honour of D.W. Hayton
<p style="text-align:justify;">This article seeks to build upon recent work on the impact of empire in mid-18th-century Britain by study of the electoral experience of parliamentary candidates who had lived in the West Indies and could boast a direct familiarity with the Caribbean. By 1750, a significant number of rich planters had relocated to Britain, and, in common with the Indian nabobs, their efforts to enter parliament aroused much adverse commentary at the elections of 1754–74. While these attacks were damaging to their interest, and occasioned the most thorough review of Caribbean society to date, the West Indians were able to respond by adapting their political campaigns to assuage metropolitan sensibilities, thereby ensuring that they were not bracketed with the nabobs or rebellious North Americans as imperial sources of domestic upheaval. Their success highlights the possibilities for successful imperial integration in mid-Georgian Britain, although the West Indians could not rely on the same strategies to combat the abolitionist movement after 1787.</p>
West Indies, William Beckford, SBTMR, London, Liverpool, parliamentary elections, absentees, empire, Bristol
William Beckford
June 2013
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William Beckford
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William Beckford: First Prime Minister of the London Empire
Perry Gauci
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This biography of William Beckford provides a unique look at eighteenth-century British history from the perspective of the colonies. Even in his own time, Beckford was seen as a metaphor for the dramatic changes occurring during this era. He was born in 1709 into a family of wealthy sugar planters living in Jamaica, when the colonies were still peripheral to Britain. By the time he died in 1770, the colonies loomed large and were considered the source of Britain's growing global power. Beckford grew his fortune in Jamaica, but he spent most of his adult life in London, where he was elected Lord Mayor twice. As one of the few politicians to have experienced imperial growing pains on both sides of the Atlantic, his life offers a riveting look at how the expanding empire challenged existing political, social, and cultural norms.
Regulating the British Economy, 1660–1850
June 2011
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This collection of chapters focuses on the regulation of the British economy in the long eighteenth century as a means to understand the synergies between political, social and economic change as Britain was transformed into a global power. Inspired by recent research on consumerism and credit, an international team of leading academics examine the ways in which state and society both advanced and responded to fundamental economic changes. The studies embrace all aspects of the regulatory process, from developing ideas on the economy, to the passage of legislation, and to the negotiation of economic policy and change in practice. They range broadly over Britain and its empire and also consider Britain's exceptionality through comparative studies. Together, the book challenges the general characterization of the period as a shift from a regulated economy to a more laissez-faire system, highlighting the uncertain relationship between the state and economic interests across the long eighteenth century.
Business & Economics
Un apprentissage impérial: William Beckford et la cité de Londres
January 2010
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Liens de Sang, Liens de Pouvoir
The Clash of Interests: Commerce and the Politics of Trade in the Age of Anne
January 2009
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Parliamentrary History, Special Issue: Politics in the Age of Holmes
Bigger Business: The Social and Political Impact of the London Merchant 1660-1800
January 2008
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Christianian Handelspatrisiat. En elite i 1700-tallets Norge
Mercaderes Ingleses en Alicante en el Siglio XVII
January 2008
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Mercaderes Ingleses en Alicante en el Siglio XVII
January 2008
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Mercaderes ingleses en Alicante en el siglo XVII
January 2008
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Este libro recoge la correspondencia comercial de Richard Houncell & Co., una de las compañías inglesas más destacadas de la región.
Emporium of the world the merchants of London 1660-1800
April 2007
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This book examines one of the most dynamic groups in early modern Britain, the overseas merchants of the City of London. Historians have increasingly recognized their key contribution to the nation's emergence as an imperial power and commercial society, but we still lack a clear picture of their activities within their natural City habitat. Rising from the ruins of the Great Fire, the 'Square Mile' was the scene of changes of profound significance for society as a whole, and contemporaries recognized the unique qualities of this potent environment. It will be re-created here by studying merchants at home, in the workplace, and through all other arenas of activity and association. These experiences are then linked to their contribution to broader social and political developments, in order to illuminate their response to the challenges and opportunities of the age. The working City has suffered relative neglect compared to the fashionable West End. This book demonstrates that this equally cosmopolitan and competitive arena had just as important an impact on the nation at large. By 1800 London could claim pre-eminence as an international centre of commerce and finance, and its merchants were vital to that achievement. The nineteenth century would see these great traders depart to the suburbs, and the port itself move to the east, but the character of the modern City still owes much to these eighteenth-century commercial leaders.
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Le grand commerce : les marchands londoniens 1660-1760
March 2007
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Finding the Middle-Ground: The Middling Sort in the Eighteenth Century
March 2006
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History Compass
Since the 1980s the debate on the impact of the middle classes in eighteenth-century Britain has helped to transform current interest and thinking on the period. No consensus has been reached on the degree of social and political change at this time, but our understanding of middling experience has been enhanced by a range of new themes and approaches, the resonance of which continues to enliven the field.
Informality and Influence: the Overseas Merchant and the livery companies, 1660-1720
January 2002
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Guilds, Society and Economy in London, 1450-1800
Protestant Identities: Religion, Society, and Self-Fashioning in Post-Reformation England (Stanford, 1999), pp. 141-57. 15. S. Thrupp, A Short History of the Worshipful Company of Bakers of London (Croydon, 1933); I. W. Archer, The History of...
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The Politics of Trade: The Overseas Merchant in State and Society, 1660-1720
April 2001
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This book examines the political and social impact of the English overseas merchant during this key era of state development. Historians have increasingly recognized the significance of this period as one of commercial and political transition, but relatively little thought has been given to the perspective of the overseas traders, whose activities transended these dynamic arenas. Analsis of the role of merchants in public life highlights their important contribution to England's rise as a commercial power of the first rank, and illuminates the fundamerntal political changes of the time. Case-studies of London, Liverpool, and York reveal the intricate workings of mercantile politics, while studies of the press and Parliament illustrate the increasing prominence of the trader on the national stage. The author's pioneering approach shows how crucial the political accomodation which the merchant class secured with the landed gentry was to the country's success in the eighteenth century.
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‘For Want of Smooth Language’: Parliament as a Point of Contact in the Augustan Age.
February 1998
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Parliamentary History
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
Politics and Society in Great Yarmouth, 1660-1722
February 1996
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This is the first intensive study of the political development of a major English town during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Perry Gauci examines the activities of the local oligarchy over a period which begins in upheaval, in the aftermath of civil war, and ends in the relative stability of early Georgian England.
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The Cider Excise Crisis 1763-1766 by Patrick Woodland