The Conquest of Smallpox: The Impact of Inoculation on Smallpox Mortality in Eighteenth Century Great Britain by Peter Razzell, and: Edward Jenner's Cowpox Vaccine: The History of a Medical Myth by Peter Razzell

1979 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 455-456
Author(s):  
Ilza Veith
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact

Reconstructing a History of Plantation Spaces at Betty’s Hope

2020 ◽  
pp. 33-52
Author(s):  
Cory Look
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Sugar Production ◽  
Ecological Constraints ◽  
Local Resources ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
History Of ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
The Impact

Arguments have been made that the decline in Antigua’s sugar production was a byproduct of poor land management practices, depletion of soils, and outdated agricultural techniques and technology. Recent work at Betty’s Hope suggests that not all plantations were susceptible to poor decision-making and that some plantations may have superseded social-ecological constraints despite the sugar industry’s inevitable decline. This chapter by Cory Look focuses on key aspects of land-use and landscape change at Betty’s Hope, particularly during the eighteenth century, when the plantation experienced rapid growth and economic prosperity. Look discusses the impact on enslaved Africans through examination of changes to slave quarter spaces and provisioning grounds by managers of local resources. The analysis was possible through remote sensing and multiple surveys conducted over ten field seasons.

Consumerism and the Rise of Balloons in Europe at the End of the Eighteenth Century

2008 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael R. Lynn
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Scientific Discovery ◽  
Technological Innovations ◽  
Cultural Importance ◽  
Scientific Experiment ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Machine

ArgumentThe history of ballooning has received considerable attention from historians examining the technological innovations behind it as well as from scholars interested in aeronautical anecdotes concerning launches and disasters. The cultural importance of this new machine, however, remains less fully analyzed. This essay explores one facet of that history through a discussion of the commodification of launches in France and Great Britain. These two countries, which have larger middling classes as well as a higher degree of commercialization in general, provided a fertile environment for aeronauts seeking to instruct and entertain an audience willing to fund ballooning. Balloonists had to invent ways to market this scientific discovery and determine how best to attract paying customers. The audience was entertained while simultaneously empowered to act as witnesses to what balloonists presented as a scientific experiment.

Anglo-Irish constitutional relations in the later eighteenth century

1964 ◽  
Vol 14 (53) ◽  
pp. 20-38
Author(s):  
J.C. Beckett
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
British History ◽  
Irish History ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
The People ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
Basic Theme ◽  
History Of ◽  
George Iii

Few periods of Irish history have been more extensively written about than the later eighteenth century: a mere list of books and papers dealing with the Volunteer movement, ‘Grattan's parliament’, the insurrection of 1798 and the legislative union of 1800 would make up a moderate-sized volume. Most of these writings are concerned, directly or indirectly, with the constitutional relationship between Ireland and Great Britain. Indeed, it might be said that this relationship is the basic theme in the Irish history of the period, even for social and economic historians; and the pattern is so well-established that it may well seem rash to assume that it can be substantially modified, or even made significantly clearer, except, perhaps, by the production of new and hitherto unsuspected evidence. Yet there is something to be said for looking again at the whole subject on the basis of our existing knowledge, not simply, as Irish historians are inclined to do, from the standpoint of Ireland, nor yet as if events in Ireland were a mere appendage to British history, but rather, as Professor Butterfield has done for one brief period in his George III, Lord North and the people, to consider Anglo-Irish constitutional relations during the late eighteenth century as part of the general political history of the British Isles.

The Initial British Impact on India: A Case Study of the Benares Region

1960 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 418-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard S. Cohn
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Impact

The British administrative frontier in India had widely differing effects on the political and social structures of the regions into which it moved from the middle of the eighteenth century until the middle of the nineteenth century. It is impossible to generalize on the impact of the administration, because the regions into which it moved differed in their political and social structures, and because British administration and ideas about administration, both in India and in Great Britain, changed markedly throughout this hundred year period.

scholarly journals Writing University History in Great Britain, from the 1960s to the Present = Escribiendo Historia de la Universidad en Gran Bretaña, desde 1960 hasta la actualidad

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Social History ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
University History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Siglo Xix ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
History Of Universities ◽  
The Impact

Abstract: This article surveys the writing of university history in Great Britain since the 1960s, when its modern foundations were laid through the impact of the new social history. Specific features of the British case include the separate university histories of England and Scotland, which have conditioned the kind of history that can be written; the duopoly of Oxford and Cambridge before the nineteenth century; and the growth of a national system by the accretion of new strata, with their own distinct histories. The 1980s and 1990s were marked by large collective projects, at Oxford, Cambridge and Aberdeen. The tradition of writing histories of individual institutions (including Oxford and Cambridge colleges) has continued, though today on a more scholarly basis than in the past. Among the general themes investigated in recent years have been relations between universities and industry, the growth of state intervention and finance, universities and elites, links with the British empire, the development of disciplines and curricula, student life, the growth of women’s higher education, and university architecture. University historians have been influenced by the historiographical turn from social to cultural history. But while individual research flourishes, the history of universities has not become a formal subdiscipline in Britain, and the article considers why this is so.Resumen: Este artículo examina los trabajos sobre la historia universitaria en Gran Bretaña desde la década de 1960, cuando sus fundamentos modernos fueron despedidos por el impacto de la nueva historia social. Las características específicas del caso británico incluyen las historias separadas de las universidades de Inglaterra y Escocia, que han condicionado el tipo de historia que se puede escribir; el duopolio de Oxford y Cambridge antes del siglo XIX; y el crecimiento de un sistema nacional mediante la adición de los nuevos estratos, con sus propias historias diferenciadas. Los años 1980 y 1990 se caracterizaron por grandes proyectos colectivos, Oxford, Cambridge y Aberdeen. La tradición de escribir historias de las instituciones individuales (incluyendo las universidades de Oxford y Cambridge) ha continuado, aunque hoy en día de forma más académica que en el pasado. Entre los temas generales investigados en los últimos años han sido las relaciones entre las universidades y la industria, el crecimiento de la intervención del Estado y las finanzas, las universidades y las élites, los nexos con el imperio británico, el desarrollo de disciplinas y programas de estudio, la vida de los estudiantes, el crecimiento de la educación superior de las mujeres y la arquitectura de la universidad. Los historiadores de la universidad se han visto influenciados por el giro historiográfico de lo social a la historia cultural. Sin embargo, aunque la investigación individual florece, la historia de las universidades no se ha convertido en una subdisciplina formal en Gran Bretaña, y el artículo analiza por qué esto es así.Keywords: Great Britain, Scotland, universities, history of universities, social history.Palabras clave: Gran Bretaña, Escocia, universidades, historia de las universidades, historia social.

The Diaspora and the Meanings of Palestinian Citizenship, 1925–1931

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Banko
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
International Community ◽  
Political Transformations ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Palestinian Society ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Impact ◽  
At Home

This chapter contextualises the discourses, influences, notions, and political transformations that informed Palestinian Arabs' understanding of nationality and citizenship in the diaspora (particularly in Latin America) and at home in the years leading up to and just after the 1925 Citizenship Order-in-Council. Importantly, it focuses on the impacts of these understandings in Palestinian society and as part of Arab relations with Great Britain as the mandatory power. It offers an entirely new history of the emigrants and their reactions to, and counter-definitions of, the type of legal and apolitical nationality and citizenship that Palestine Mandate and colonial officials attempted to craft during the same time period. The impact of citizenship legislation on the diaspora frames the introduction of debates, discussions and slogans within Palestine, such as the demand for the ‘right to return’ and letters of protest to the British and international community that underscored the grievances of the emigrants who lacked citizenship.

The Correspondence of Catharine Macaulay

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Republican Period ◽  
Parliamentary Reform ◽  
Catharine Macaulay ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
Radical Republicanism

This edition of all of Catharine Macaulay’s known correspondence includes an introduction to the life, works, and influence of this celebrated, eighteenth-century, republican historian. Through her letters and those of her correspondents it offers a unique glimpse of the connections between radical republicanism and dissent in London, and throws light on the origins of parliamentary reform in Great Britain. Macaulay’s correspondents include many individuals who were active in the lead-up to the American and French Revolutions, others who became involved in the antislavery movement, and yet others who were central to the development of feminism. These letters demonstrate how Macaulay’s history of the seventeenth-century republican period in Great Britain, which she published between 1763 and 1783, encouraged her readers to represent themselves as the heirs of those earlier struggles and to lavish praise on the author as an important defender of their liberties and of the universal rights of mankind. It shows Macaulay and her friends to have been inspired by positive notions of liberty and by ideals of democratic republicanism, thought of as systems of equal government committed to universal benevolence, in which the common good would become the common care.

APPROACHES TO THE HISTORY OF READERS AND READING IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN

2004 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 1041-1054 ◽  
Author(s):  
IAN JACKSON
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
Reading Practice ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Reading Material ◽  
New Synthesis ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
New Evidence

The history of reading can link intellectual and cultural developments with social or political change in the eighteenth century. Historians of the book increasingly argue that an understanding of historical reading practices is essential if we are to understand the impact of texts on individuals and on society as a whole: textual evidence alone is inadequate. Recent work on eighteenth-century readers has used sources including book trade records, correspondence, and diaries to reconstruct the reading lives of individuals and of groups of readers. Such sources reveal the great variety of reading material many eighteenth-century readers could access, and the diversity and sophistication of reading practices they often employed, in selecting between a range of available reading strategies. Thus, any one theoretical paradigm is unlikely to capture the full range of eighteenth-century reading experience. Instead, we can trace the evolution of particular reading cultures, including popular and literary reading cultures, the existence of cultures based around particular genres of print, such as newspapers, and reading as a part of social and conversational life. There is now a need for a new synthesis that combines the new evidence of reading practice with textual analysis to explain continuity and change across the century.

Stewart's Theorem, with Applications

1928 ◽  
Vol 21 (8) ◽  
pp. 465-478
Author(s):  
Richard Morris
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
History Of Mathematics ◽  
Text Book ◽  
History Of ◽  
Made In ◽  
Greek Geometry

The writer will introduce this paper by quoting a sentence from Cajori's History of Mathematics. “While in France the school of G. Monge was creating Modern Geometry, efforts were made in England by Robert Simson (1687-176) and Matthew Stewart (1717-1785) to revive Greek Geometry. The latter was a pupil of Simson and was one of the two prominent mathematicians in Great Britain during the eighteenth century.” Dr. David Eugene Smith speaks of Euclid as the most influential text-book on mathematics ever written. We are grateful to these two men, Simson and Stewart, for their labors in the Renaissance of Geometry.

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