British Radical Attitudes towards the United States of America in the 1790s: The Case of William Winterbotham

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Macleod
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Thomas Paine ◽  
High Court ◽  
Philosophical View ◽  
Political Analysis ◽  
Chattel Slavery ◽  
Joseph Priestley ◽  
New Republic

This chapter examines British radical attitudes towards America during the 1790s by taking up the case of William Winterbotham, a Plymouth Baptist preacher who was jailed in Newgate prison for four years (1793–1797) for allegedly seditious content in two sermons he preached in November 1792. Winterbotham's most ambitious work was An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the American United States, published in four volumes in 1795. It demonstrates the fascination that America held for British radicals beyond Thomas Paine, Joseph Priestley and Richard Price. Among his many concerns, Winterbotham was highly critical of the institution of chattel slavery. The chapter explores Winterbotham's political analysis of the new republic and shows that his imprisonment for seditious libel was bracketed by contemporaries with the more conspicuous 'martyrdom' of five men sentenced to transportation by the Scottish High Court of Justiciary.

scholarly journals TRIBUTO A NINA SIMONE: arte, política, o corpo e a questão racial/sexual nos Estados Unidos da América em dois atos

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Florisvaldo Paulo Ribeiro Junior ◽  
Maria Elizabeth Ribeiro Carneiro
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Body Politics ◽  
Political Analysis ◽  
Nina Simone ◽  
Body Theory

Resumo O artigo é um extrato de duas leituras críticas realizadas sobre o filme What Happened, Miss Simone? de Liz Garbus, documentário produzido nos EUA em 2015, que explora a trajetória biográfica, a atuação e a sensibilidade artística, profissional, política, amorosa da cantora, pianista, ativista e compositora Nina Simone (EUA, 2015). Duas abordagens permitem acompanhar a construção de perspectivas analíticas do pesquisador e da pesquisadora que priorizam, por um viés, a conjuntura político-social, e por outro, a materialidade histórico-discursiva, buscando recompor um outro conjunto de elementos constitutivos do documentário. A reflexão histórica/historiográfica resulta no exercício de recepção da obra em algumas de suas possibilidades interpretativas. As comunicações foram objeto de debate realizado na mesa-redonda do Projeto Educação e Cinema, promovida pelo PPGE/FACED, na Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, em 16 de junho de 2016. Palavras-chave: Nina Simone. Arte. Corpo. Política. Raça. Sexo-Gênero. EUA. TRIBUTE TO NINA SIMONE: art, politics, the body and the racial / sexual issue in the United States of America in two actsAbstract This article is an extract of two critical reviews on the documentary What Happened, Miss Simone? (EUA, 2015), by Liz Garbus. Life, art, profession, love, a biography of Nina Simone was builded with video and film fragments, interviews, speeches, concerts, materials by and about that woman, activist, and the fabulous composer, piano player and singer. Different views elaborated by two historians exhibit approaches to that source: in one hand, a historical-political analysis, in the other hand, a discourse analysis based on gender studies and the body theory. Both historical and historiographical approaches together seek to enlarge possibilities for the work of thought, interpretation and reception. The papers were extracts of a debate within Education and Movie Project, promoted by PPGE/FACED, at Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, in June 16, 2016. Keywords: Nina Simone. Art. Body. Politics. Race. Sex-Gender. USA. 

Thinking About Scots Law

1996 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Rodger
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
British Empire ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Case Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University

This article is the revised text of the first W A Wilson Memorial Lecture, given in the Playfair Library, Old College, in the University of Edinburgh, on 17 May 1995. It considers various visions of Scots law as a whole, arguing that it is now a system based as much upon case law and precedent as upon principle, and that its departure from the Civilian tradition in the nineteenth century was part of a general European trend. An additional factor shaping the attitudes of Scots lawyers from the later nineteenth century on was a tendency to see themselves as part of a larger Englishspeaking family of lawyers within the British Empire and the United States of America.

Off to a bad start: John Adams’s tussle over titles

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
James C Alexander
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Vice President ◽  
The United States ◽  
John Adams ◽  
The Press ◽  
First Session

From the first days, of the first session, of the first Congress of the United States, the Senate was consumed by an issue that would do immense and lasting political harm to the sitting vice president, John Adams. The issue was a seemingly unimportant one: titles. Adams had strong opinions on what constituted a proper title for important officers of government and, either because he was unconcerned or unaware of the damage it would cause, placed himself in the middle of the brewing dispute. Adams hoped the president would be referred to as, “His highness, the President of the United States of America, and Protector of the Rights of the Same.” The suggestion enraged many, amused some, and was supported by few. He lost the fight over titles and made fast enemies with several of the Senators he was constitutionally obligated to preside over. Adams was savaged in the press, derided in the Senate and denounced by one of his oldest and closest friends. Not simply an isolated incident of political tone-deafness, this event set the stage for the campaign against Adams as a monarchist and provided further proof of his being woefully out of touch.

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