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Published: 28 February 2023
...This chapter analyzes Mary E. Wilkins Freeman’s representation of modernist alienation in the context of an increasingly industrialized New England. As opposed to earlier views of Freeman’s New England as a pastoral, rural space, this essay foregrounds the incursion of industrial landscapes...
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Published: 02 August 2022
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Published: 02 August 2022
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Published: 26 April 2022
...“The Projections” demonstrates how immigration has become a symbol for Scotland’s future relationships with the UK, the EU, and the international community. The England-facing politics of immigration contrast national approaches to immigration and multiculturalism and use the contrast to advocate...
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Published: 30 April 2023
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Published: 01 May 2021
...This paper traces the development of law reporting in England between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries, hand in hand with the crystallisation of a doctrine of authoritative precedent related to the printing of law reports. Fortescue John Fitzherbert Anthony Fyneux John Gray’s Inn...
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Published: 01 October 2020
... and anti-Catholic monarchy extended from 1689 until 1746; and meanwhile, the country entered union with England in 1707, exiting the international stage politically, but not architecturally. Scotland’s early Classicism provides a discrete episode within that time span, and also sits between its two castle...
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Published: 12 May 2008
...This chapter explores why England became the driving force for the Treaty of Union. The Board of Trade turned out to be the primary passage for carrying the antipathies of English diplomatic and colonial officials towards what they thought to be the rogue behaviour of the Scots. Scottish commercial...
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Published: 12 May 2008
... stronger as Britain expanded and the imbalance caused by the dominance of England over the other British nations was diluted by an imperial dynamic that many Scots affected by entrenched Presbyterian concepts of a dynamic moral commonwealth that would change the world. Charles I king Cromwell Oliver...
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Published: 12 May 2008
...This chapter considers the future of Anglo-Scottish Union. It is noted that any serious Tory revival could carry the party to an almost impregnable domination of English politics — as long as those Scottish MPs aren't there to spoil it. Scotophobia in England is largely a media invention and has...
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Published: 30 October 2008
...This chapter discusses the politics of blasphemy. The issue of the Episcopal clergy was complicated by relations with England, whose Anglican religious establishment viewed the Scots Episcopal clergy as co-religionists who ought at least to be tolerated, and preferably employed as well, north...
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Published: 02 July 2008
... in the sustained conflict between Robert Bruce and Edward II and how the wars, and Bannockburn affected the politics and society in Ireland, Wales and England, and Scotland. It also evaluates the interaction of warfare, politics and diplomacy across the British Isles during the critical years between 1300 and 1330...
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Published: 01 May 2016
... Mandeville A Tale of Seventeenth Century England Deloraine Rousseau Hume Mary Wollstonecraft The First Earl of Shaftesbury The perfection of the human character consists in approaching as nearly as possible to the perfectly voluntary state. We ought to be upon all occasions prepared to render a reason...
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Published: 01 May 2016
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Published: 30 June 2019
... United Irishmen Rebellion 1798 Enquiry Concerning Political Justice Godwin Godwin William Mask of Anarchy The Shelley victimhood betrayal suicide as ‘England in 1819’ Shelley Peterloo massacre social betrayal suicide as Hale Sir Matthew Historia Placitorum Coronæ Hale James Charles Manchester...
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Published: 13 June 2011
...This chapter describes two novels by Leila Aboulela and Tayeb Salih detailing the colonial encounters of Sudanese students in England and Scotland. Salih's Season of Migration to the North offers a hard-eyed look at native culture typical of that period of self-examination...
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Published: 27 August 2008
...This chapter deals with Britain, looking at the muddled majoritarian response to the civil unrest in England's northern towns, concerns about Asian self-segregation, and the flow of asylum seekers. It argues that these are not intermittent anxieties, but manifestations of a discernible turn...
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Published: 01 April 2015
... with practices in the Church of England. Here accountability was based on the personal character of those occupying the office of churchwarden. The consequences pointed to by this contrast are suggested by the observation that kirk sessions rarely had a financial deficit at the end of an accounting period...
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Published: 01 January 2016
...This chapter examines Edmund Burke’s attitude towards Protestant dissenters, particularly the more radical or rational ones who were prominent in the late eighteenth century, as a way of understanding his changing attitude towards the Church of England and state. The Dissenters who attracted...
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Published: 31 May 2022
...Focusing on the reception history of Thomas Babington Macaulay’s History of England and Thomas Carlyle’s French Revolution, this chapter rehabilitates prose style as part of a technical discourse that reflects and mediates the domain of historical knowledge...