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Religion, Revolution and English Radicalism

Non-conformity in Eighteenth-Century Politics and Society

By: James E. Bradley

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Religion, Revolution and English Radicalism

Non-conformity in Eighteenth-Century Politics and Society

By: James E. Bradley

This book examines the social and political activities of the English Dissenters in the age of the American Revolution. By comparing sermons, political pamphlets, and election ephemera to poll books, city directories, and baptismal registers, this book offers an integrated approach to the study of ideology and behavior.

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500

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Cambridge University Press

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0521890829

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9780521890823

An Octogenarian's Reminiscences

By: James Bonwick

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An Octogenarian's Reminiscences

By: James Bonwick

In his 1902 published work James Bonwick recalls a long life's contribution to the fields of education and historical writing.

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403

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Cambridge University Press

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1108038964

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9781108038966

The Life and Times of Six Australian Pioneers

(1760–1880)

By: James Arthur Loftus

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The Life and Times of Six Australian Pioneers

(1760–1880)

By: James Arthur Loftus

This true life adventure story is the saga of four ordinary Englishmen—a pair of banished, first-time petty thieves and a couple chosen to be settlers—who charted a course that led them to help build and mould an infant country on the remotest continent in the known world. Two of their offspring united to continue the adventure. Vivid first-hand accounts have been pried from the daily, hand-written journals and writings of first-class passengers, crew, and one of the convicts aboard the small wooden sailing ships, as they battled winter storms on the treacherous North Atlantic and Southern Oceans and endured scorching doldrums in the equatorial region. Mutinies, inventions, discoveries, and wars have been chronicled to provide a backdrop of the prevailing international, societal, and interpersonal relationships of the period. Characters from history’s stage weave their way through these pages—figures including James Cook, Horatio Nelson, Robert Emmet, Jonathan Swift, William Bligh, Lachlan Macquarie, Samuel Marsden, Walter Lawry, Alfred Howitt, and some long-forgotten souls like the tragic Margaret Sullivan. Artwork of the period is included to help stimulate the imagination and help place the reader beside the characters as they toiled to eke out an existence. The primary objective of this biography is a quest to achieve a broader, deeper understanding and appreciation of the typical person—including their struggles, challenges, and contributions—in early colonial New South Wales, Victoria, and New Zealand. The goal is to further the development of a robust comprehension of the Life and Times that these Six Australian Pioneers experienced, as well, the millions of other pioneers just like them. This book will also appeal to those with an interest in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Australian, European, and New Zealand history; late eighteenth-century ocean voyages; and those with an interest in artwork of the period.

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494

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Xlibris Corporation

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166410156X

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9781664101562

Human Leopards - An Account of the Trials of Humaeone, Past and Present

By: Sir Kenneth James Beatty

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Human Leopards - An Account of the Trials of Humaeone, Past and Present

By: Sir Kenneth James Beatty

Captain Beatty, just before leaving for the Dardanelles, asked me to write a preface. I think that the best preface will be to answer, as far as I am able, several questions which were frequently put to me on my return to civilization after the conclusion of the Special Commission Court. These questions were, "What was the object of the Human Leopard Society? Were its members cannibals for the purpose of satisfying an appetite for human flesh, or was it some religious rite? Would the sentences inflicted by the Special Commission Court have the effect of stamping out the horrible practice?" The first question can be answered with some confidence. The trend of the whole evidence showed that the prime object of the Human Leopard Society was to secure human fat wherewith to anoint the Borfima. The witnesses told us how the occasion of a murder is used to "blood" the Borfima, but the potency of this terrible fetish depends upon its being frequently supplied with human fat. Hence these murders. The question as to cannibalism it is not possible to answer with any degree of certainty. The Commission sat for over five months, had before it vihundreds of witnesses, and the notes of evidence ran into thousands of pages; but the Court was a judicial tribunal, and it was anxious to bring its labours to an end as speedily as possible, so that no question was asked or allowed by the Court which was not relevant to the issue. Again and again answers given by witnesses opened up avenues which it would have been most interesting to investigate, but, unless the investigation was relevant to the case in hand or would have served to elucidate some other part of the evidence which was doubtful, the Court could not allow it to be pursued. Nor would it have been seemly for the members of the Court to make private investigation into a matter before them judicially.

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171

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anboco

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3736419260

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9783736419261

Visions of Science

Books and readers at the dawn of the Victorian age

By: James Secord

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Visions of Science

Books and readers at the dawn of the Victorian age

By: James Secord

The early 1830s witnessed an extraordinary transformation in British political, literary, and intellectual life. New scientific disciplines begin to take shape, while new concepts of the natural world were hotly debated. James Secord, Director of the Darwin Correspondence Project, captures this unique moment of change by exploring key books, including Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology, Mary Somerville's Connexion of the Physical Sciences, and Thomas Carlyle's satirical work, Sartor Resartus. Set in the context of electoral reform and debates about the extension of education to meet the demands of the coming age of empire and industry, Secord shows how the books were published, disseminated, admired, attacked and satirized.

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321

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OUP Oxford

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0191662763

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9780191662768

Gibbs' Book of Architecture

An Eighteenth-Century Classic

By: James Gibbs

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Gibbs' Book of Architecture

An Eighteenth-Century Classic

By: James Gibbs

Gibbs's legendary 1728 folio includes perspectives and blueprints for such magnificent commissions as London's St. Martin in the Fields; the Senate House of the University of Cambridge; plus fine drawings of marble cisterns, iron gates, funeral monuments, and more.

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193

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Courier Corporation

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0486142345

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9780486142340

Myths of the Origin of Fire

By: Sir James G. Frazer

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Myths of the Origin of Fire

By: Sir James G. Frazer

Sir James G. Frazer (1854-1941) is famous as the author of The Golden Bough, but his work ranged widely across classics, cultural history, folklore and literary criticism as well as anthropology. A Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, for 62 years, Sir James G. Frazer devoted his life to research. This volume was first published in 1930.

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197

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Routledge

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1136852220

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9781136852220

Book's by James Bonwick

Religion, Revolution and English Radicalism

Religion, Revolution and English Radicalism

An Octogenarian's Reminiscences

An Octogenarian's Reminiscences

The Life and Times of Six Australian Pioneers

The Life and Times of Six Australian Pioneers

Human Leopards - An Account of the Trials of Humaeone, Past and Present

Human Leopards - An Account of the Trials of Humaeone, Past and Present

Visions of Science

Visions of Science

Gibbs' Book of Architecture

Gibbs' Book of Architecture

Myths of the Origin of Fire

Myths of the Origin of Fire

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