An English Audience for American Revolutionary Pamphlets

1976 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 355-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. C. Bonwick
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
American Revolution ◽  
Political Propaganda ◽  
The World ◽  
Catharine Macaulay ◽  
Joseph Priestley ◽  
And Function ◽  
Good Number ◽  
The Revolution

The eighteenth century was a great age of pamphleteering. Subjects were legion and authors innumerable. Every question of substance – and many of none – attracted writers to such a degree that in the world of politics one is tempted to establish the scale of pamphleteering as one of the yardsticks against which the importance of an issue should be measured. The American revolution fully conforms to this criterion, for during a twenty-year period beginning in 1763 it stimulated the publication of well over a thousand pamphlets in England alone. A good number of those pamphlets originated in America and their subsequent reappearance in England was a matter of considerable significance; some were written by Americans resident in London. This paper will examine the mechanics by which American revolutionary tracts were published and distributed in England, and their circulation among the radicals who proved themselves to be the patriots' best English friends during the difficult years of the revolution. They included among others Thomas Hollis, John Wilkes, Major John Cartwright and Granville Sharp; the Dissenting ministers Richard Price and Joseph Priestley, and one of the most brilliant women of her generation, Catharine Macaulay. Such an examination is not only an integral component in the analysis of the English side of the revolution; it also serves as a useful case-study in the mechanics and function of political propaganda.

Skating in the New World

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
James R. Hines
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
North America ◽  
American Revolution ◽  
New World ◽  
East Coast ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
Recreational Activity ◽  
Figure Skaters ◽  
The World ◽  
Important Center

This chapter discusses the development of skating in the New World. There is much evidence of skating activity throughout the Colonies in the years before the American Revolution. It was a recreational activity, with racing being especially popular, but as a discipline little is known about it. Bone skates as a practical solution for travel across frozen landscapes were discovered independently in various parts of the world. French trappers who worked in eastern North America learned from the Iroquois Indians the practice of tying bones to their feet to traverse frozen rivers. Thus, in North America as in Europe and Asia, skating on bones must have existed for thousands of years. Bladed skates, however, were probably unknown in the New World before the eighteenth century, perhaps introduced by British officers stationed in Nova Scotia following its seizure from the French in 1713. By the mid-eighteenth century, skating was practiced along the East Coast whenever ice was available. Philadelphia became skating's first important center and could boast of competent figure skaters.

Reforms Under Czar Alexander I: French and American Influences

1947 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Vernadsky
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
American Revolution ◽  
Separation Of Powers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Common Source ◽  
Philosophical Literature ◽  
Profound Influence ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Revolution

The two great revolutions of the eighteenth century—the American and the French had each in turn and in its own way a profound influence not only on the history of the United States and of France, but directly or indirectly on the history of the whole world.These two powerful currents had a common source in the French ideological movement before the Revolution. The development of American revolutionary thought was of course more closely linked to the English ideology, but there was much contact and cross influence between the English and the French philosophers. Further, the French political and philosophical literature was directly accessible to Americans without intermediary English works. We have only to mention Montesquieu and his principle of the separation of powers which serves as the basis of the Constitution of the United States. Also, the American Revolution influenced in turn political developments in France. One finds the roots of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen not only in France but in America as well.

scholarly journals Le abetine di Vallombrosa nel 1791. I monaci vallombrosani e l'assestamento forestale nel XVIII secolo: un patrimonio culturale da salvaguardare

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Galipò ◽  
Duccio Baldassini
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Geographic Information Systems ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Land Planning ◽  
Historical Archives ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation

The study of microtoponomastics, the examination of sources and the use of new technologies for the creation of geographic information systems capable of gathering various layers of information, allows the extraction of extremely interesting materials for land planning. The case study of the Vallombrosa Forest, probably the best-known forest area in Italy, is indicative of how the exploration of the world of historical archives is important still today. From the evidence that the Vallombrosan Benedictine monks, in the last years of the eighteenth century, had already drawn up a forest regulation plan, we can see the need and urgency to preserve a real scientific and cultural heritage. The creation of a Silvomuseum in Vallombrosa is confirmed as a brilliant intuition and its careful and punctual realization represents the challenge that awaits the current managers of the millenary forest, the cradle of Italian forestry sciences.

IBCLCs and Craniosacral Therapists

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 92-99
Author(s):  
Patricia Berg-Drazin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Structure And Function ◽  
The Body ◽  
Craniosacral Therapy ◽  
The World ◽  
Integral Role ◽  
And Function ◽  
Tremendous Impact

The rate of ankyloglossia (tongue-tie) appears to be on the rise in the United States and around the world. IBCLCs working with the families of babies with tongue-tie all too often are the first ones to notice the symptoms and suggest treatment. Even after the tongue has been released, these infants continue to struggle with breastfeeding. The tongue plays an integral role in breastfeeding, but it is also crucial to other oral functions such as speech, respiration, oral hygiene, swallowing, and chewing. The tongue is connected through the extrinsic muscles to bone both above and below the oral cavity. The restriction of the tongue results in associated strains in the body. We will follow the muscular connections and origins to understand the influences in the body. Craniosacral therapy (CST) has its origin in osteopathy, which teaches that structure and function are reciprocally interrelated. When structure is compromised, function will be as well. CST is a perfect complement to help these infants’ bodies release the tensions created as well as to aid in rebalancing structurally and somatically. A case study will illuminate the tremendous impact CST can have on children suffering from tongue-tie.

Social Networks and Social Worlds

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 234-260
Author(s):  
Jared Ross Hardesty
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
American Revolution ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Port City ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Men And Women

Abstract This essay argues that the “slave community” paradigm obfuscates alternative lived experiences for enslaved men and women, especially those living in the urban areas of the early modern Atlantic world, and uses eighteenth-century Boston as a case study. A bustling Atlantic port city where slaves comprised between ten and fifteen percent of the population, Boston provides an important counterpoint. Slaves were a minority of residents, lived in households with few other people of African descent, worked with laborers from across the socio-economic spectrum, and had near constant interaction with their masters. Moreover, slavery in Boston reached its zenith before the American Revolution, meaning older, pre-revolutionary and early modern notions of social order—hierarchy, deference, and dependence—structured their society and everyday lives. These factors imbricated enslaved Bostonians in the broader society. Boston’s slaves inhabited multiple “social worlds” where they fostered a rich tapestry of relations and forms of resistance.

BEFORE DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS: WESTERN POLITICAL ECONOMY, THE “RUSSIAN CASE,” AND THE FIRST PERCEPTIONS OF ECONOMIC BACKWARDNESS (FROM THE 1760S UNTIL THE MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY)

2010 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 349-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
EZEQUIEL ADAMOVSKY
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Development Economics ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Major Player ◽  
The World ◽  
New Thinking ◽  
Evolution Of Ideas

Before the emergence of the field of development economics in the mid-1940s, the mainstream of Western economists had very little to say about the world outside western Europe. However, perhaps due to Russia’s ambivalent location as a nation considered not fully European (nor completely Asiatic) and to her status as a major player in the international arena despite the fact of her modest economic achievements, from the eighteenth century onwards the “Russian case” called the attention of some of the most prominent Western minds, including the first economists. By discussing Russia’s economy, they came to notions and concepts regarding development and backwardness that, to a great extent. informed the twentieth-century debate. The aim of this article is to explore the way in which Russia as a case study affected the evolution of ideas on economic growth or development. The evidence of things Russian, it will be argued, raised doubts about common economic views, thus enabling new thinking that pointed either to criticism of liberal orthodoxy, or to expansion and refinement of its arguments.

“THE POWER OF FEELING”? EMOTION, SENSIBILITY, AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 659-672 ◽  
Author(s):  
SARAH M. S. PEARSALL
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
American Revolution ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
American History ◽  
Historical Change ◽  
Thomas Paine ◽  
Emotional Culture ◽  
Expression Of Emotion ◽  
The Revolution

In January 1776, Thomas Paine demanded to know whether “the Power of feeling” did not require that American colonists declare independence from Great Britain. Paine's efforts included an appeal to “common sense,” to the idea that it was only natural for colonists to end their ties with Britain. For Paine, independence did not depend on elaborately wrought arguments; instead, it should be obvious to all, even the most unlettered. His own emotionally charged language—the king was akin to a “crowned ruffian” descended from “a French Bastard landing with an armed Banditti”—sought to stir even those who still longed for reconciliation to “examine the passions and feelings of mankind” and to throw off the yoke of oppression. Paine's formulations, like these two books, raise numerous questions. How significant has the expression of emotion been in American history? How far can scholars go in attributing to it sufficient momentum to effect major historical change? Can something so universal be harnessed into nationalist political trajectories? Should America be seen as having a unique emotional culture in the eighteenth century? Did this exceptional culture of feeling contribute to the Revolution itself? These two authors answer yes to the last three questions, thus prompting re-evaluation of the “power of feeling” in the American Revolution itself.

scholarly journals COVID-19 and the Rise of Crime in Developing Countries

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (05) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tobi Achudume
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
International Community ◽  
Crime Rates ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
New Normal ◽  
The World ◽  
Good Number

It is not news that the world was on a stand still for about a year, and now, we operate in a new normal. A good number of research has been carried out on this topic. Where there has been a discord is how the pandemic affected more things than just the economy of states and the health sector. In many countries of the world, as a result of the virus and the lockdown that followed in the international community, there was a big rise in crime rates and domestic violence in states. This article explores the rise of crime in Nigeria and how this affected the country even in a pandemic. This research adopts the use of case study method to see the rise in crime and how it happened in a pandemic.

Reflections on the Revolution in France

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edmund Burke
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
American Revolution ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Edmund Burke ◽  
Political Thinker ◽  
The French Revolution ◽  
The Revolution

Edmund Burke was the dominant political thinker of the last quarter of the eighteenth century in England. His reputation depends less on his role as a practising politician than on his ability to set contemporary problems within a wider context of political theory. Above all, he commented on change. He tried to teach lessons about how change should be managed, what limits should not be transgressed, and what should be reverently preserved. Burke’s generation was much in need of advice on these matters. The Industrial Revolution, the American Revolution, and catastrophically, the French Revolution presented challenges of terrible proportions. They could promise paradise or threaten anarchy. Burke was acutely aware of how high the stakes were. The Reflections on the Revolution in France was a dire warning of the consequences that would follow the mismanagement of change.

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