Author : Stephen D. White
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 11,63 MB
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1469639556
A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Author : Stephen D. White
Publisher :
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 25,14 MB
Release : 1979
Category :
ISBN : 9780608020631
Author : Melinda S. Zook
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 15,17 MB
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1317168755
Offering a broad and eclectic approach to the experience and activities of early modern women, Challenging Orthodoxies presents new research from a group of leading voices in their respective fields. Each essay confronts some received wisdom, ’truth’ or orthodoxy in social and cultural, scientific and intellectual, and political and legal traditions, to demonstrate how women from a range of social classes could challenge the conventional thinking of their time as well as the ways in which they have been traditionally portrayed by scholars. Subjects include women's relationship to guns and gunpowder, the law and legal discourse, religion, public finances, and the new science in early modern Europe, as well as women and indentured servitude in the New World. A testament to the pioneering work of Hilda L. Smith, this collection makes a valuable contribution to scholarship in women’s studies, political science, history, religion and literature.
Author : Matthew Crow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 16,95 MB
Release : 2017-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1108155987
In this innovative book, historian Matthew Crow unpacks the legal and political thought of Thomas Jefferson as a tool for thinking about constitutional transformation, settler colonialism, and race and civic identity in the era of the American Revolution. Thomas Jefferson's practices of reading, writing, and collecting legal history grew out of broader histories of early modern empire and political thought. As a result of the peculiar ways in which he theorized and experienced the imperial crisis and revolutionary constitutionalism, Jefferson came to understand a republican constitution as requiring a textual, material culture of law shared by citizens with the cultivated capacity to participate in such a culture. At the center of the story in Thomas Jefferson, Legal History, and the Art of Recollection, Crow concludes, we find legal history as a mode of organizing and governing collective memory, and as a way of instituting a particular form of legal subjectivity.
Author : L. J. Reeve
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 34,78 MB
Release : 2003-10-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521521338
An analysis of the political crisis leading to Charles I's personal rule in England.
Author : Phillip Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,26 MB
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1351345117
In the history of British patent law, the role of Parliament is often side-lined. This is largely due to the raft of failed or timid attempts at patent law reform. Yet there was another way of seeking change. By the end of the nineteenth century, private legislation had become a mechanism or testing ground for more general law reforms. The evolution of the law had essentially been privatised and was handled in the committee rooms in Westminster. This is known in relation to many great industrial movements such as the creating of railways, canals and roads, or political movements such as the powers and duties of local authorities, but it has thus far been largely ignored in the development of patent law. This book addresses this shortfall and examines how private legislation played an important role in the birth of modern patent law.
Author : J.P. Sommerville
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 33,50 MB
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1317882075
This well-known book reasserts the central importance of political and religious ideology in the origins of the English Civil War. Recent historiography has concentrated on its social and economic causes: Sommerville reminds us what the people of the time thought they were fighting about. Examining the main political theories in c.17th England - the Divine Right of Kings, government by consent, and the ancient constitution - he considers their impact on actual events. He draws on major political thinkers like Hobbes and Locke, but also on lesser but more representative figures, to explore what was new in these ideas and what was merely the common currency of the age. This major new edition incorporates all the latest thinking on the subject.
Author : Christine MacLeod
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 19,57 MB
Release : 2002-05-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521893992
This book examines the development of the English patent system and its relationship with technical change during the period between 1660 and 1800, when the patent system evolved from an instrument of royal patronage into one of commercial competition among the inventors and manufacturers of the Industrial Revolution. It analyses the legal and political framework within which patenting took place and gives an account of the motivations and fortunes of patentees, who obtained patents for a variety of purposes beyond the simple protection of an invention. It includes the first in-depth attempt to gauge the reliability of the patent statistics as a measure of inventive activity and technical change in the early part of the Industrial Revolution, and suggests that the distribution of patents is a better guide to the advance of capitalism than to the centres of inventive activity. It also queries the common assumption that the chief goal of inventors was to save labour, and examines contemporary criticism of the patent system in the light of the changing conceptualisation of invention among natural scientists and political economists.
Author : G. Burgess
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 17,15 MB
Release : 2016-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0230501583
This book analyzes the consequences of the accession of James I in 1603 for English and British history, politics, literature and culture. Questioning the extent to which 1603 marked a radical break with the past, the book explores the Scottish, Welsh, and wider European and colonial contexts, to this crucial date in history.
Author : Robert E. Stillman
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 29,51 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780838753101
That saving form of knowledge, as it develops in the lines of linguistic thought that extend from Bacon's Instauration to Wilkins's Philosophical Language, is both a product of and one potent agent in producing the emerging, scientistically designed, modern state.
