books about: whigs     books:     Whigs      Gentlemen (33 1/3) Bob Gendron Continuum International Publishing Group, 2008 Now You Know Gendron's Gentlemen book encompasses the best aspects of the 33 1/3 series. It's readable in one sitting and is fast-paced, smart and accurate. The author takes great care with the source material and interviews to treat the album with the respect and love that it ...             Whig Interpretation of History Herbert Butterfield W. W. Norton & Company, 1965 Great Reading for History Grad Students "The Whig Interpretation of History" is superb meditation on the craft of history and how it can be distorted by "whig history." This was how Herbert Butterfield described historians who project modern attitudes on to the past, pass moral judgments on historical ...             Whigs and Hunters E.P. Thompson Pantheon, 1976 A very serious study of natural resource policy This book has influenced an entire series of books on understanding the evolution of natural resource policy and culture. It is especially important in understanding the development of laws and policy about wildlife. It is, to use a worn-out phrase, a seminal work. ...             Radical Whigs and Conspiratorial Politics in Late Stuart England Melinda S. Zook Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008 In this book Melinda Zook examines the political culture of England during the 1670s and 1680s. She singles out an underground network of radical conspirators and propagandists who have been virtually ignored by historians. These men, and some women, were working to ensure a Protestant succession of the monarchy. In the course of their struggles ...             The Political Culture of the American Whigs Daniel Walker Howe University Of Chicago Press, 1984 Great Book on the Origins of the "Positive Liberal State" In this book, originally published in 1979, Danial Walker Howe seeks to understand the ideological origins and development of American Whigs, a political party that emerged in the 1830s but collapsed in the first part of the 1850s. Led by such enigmatic politicians as ...             The King's Three Faces: The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688-1776 Brendan McConville The University of North Carolina Press, 2007 In a provocative reinterpretation of the first century of American history, McConville argues that colonial society developed a political culture marked by strong attachment to Great Britain's monarchs. This intense allegiance continued almost until the moment of independence, an event defined by an emotional break with the king. By reading ...             The English Libertarian Heritage: From the Writings of John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon in the Independent ... David L. Jacobson (ed.) Fox & Wilkes, 1994 Great Selection with Essential Intro. This is a wonderful book that every libertarian should own. It features a solid selection of some of the best pieces in "Cato's Letters" as well as the "Independent Whig." These works expounded some of the most radical libertarian principles that the world has ever ...             The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War Michael F. Holt Oxford University Press, USA, 2003 A well reasoned work of political history. In the Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party, Professor Holt convicingly demonstrates through detailed inspection and analysis of national, state and local elections that the Whigs were always a deeply divided political party whose continued existance as a potent ...             Whigs and Whiggism: Political Writings of Benjamin Disraeli, 1833-1853 (Conservative Leadership) William Hutcheon Gateway Editions, 2006 The Magnum Opus of Victorian Conservatism This collection of Disraeli's early works gives insight into the political issues which abounded in Victorian England, and establish Disraeli's brand of patriotic conservatism grounded in the ancient British constitution and a belief in national greatness through the ...             From Crown to Glory: The Journey of a Carolina Family from Loyalty to the King to Revolution 1730-1780 Thomas E. Neel Trafford Publishing, 2006 A Patriotic Uplift I found the book enlightening from the standpoint of looking at the history of our country in the South rather than the happenings in the North. Family chronology was easy to follow and the actions of various groups of people made vivid. The way of life our ...             The Whigs of Scotland: or, the Last of the Stuarts: An Historical Romance of the Scottish Persecution. Volume ... William Craig Brownlee Adamant Media Corporation, 2001 This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1833 edition by J. & J. Harper, New York.             Subverting Scotland's Past: Scottish Whig Historians and the Creation of an Anglo-British Identity 1689-1830 Colin Kidd Cambridge University Press, 2003 This book examines how the dramatic intellectual developments of the Scottish Enlightenment undermined a patriotic reading of Scotland's history, and shows how this had long-term consequences in the failure of the nineteenth-century Scottish intelligentsia to mount a nationalist movement comparable to the romantic nationalisms of other European ...             True Whigs and Honest Tories Thomas S. Martin International Scholars Press, 1997 True Whigs and Honest Tories is a two-volume study of the social, cultural and philosophical milieu that generated the American Revolution. The recent convergence of anarchist, feminist and ecological philosophy, combined with general systems theory and new ideas about language and psychology, has begun to generate a post-Western, "Green" way of ...             We Mean to Be Counted: White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia (Gender and American Culture) Elizabeth R. Varon The University of North Carolina Press, 1998 Over the past two decades, historians have successfully disputed the notion that American women remained wholly outside the realm of politics until the early twentieth century. Still, a consensus has prevailed that, unlike their Northern counterparts, women of the antebellum South were largely excluded from public life. With this book, Elizabeth ...             John Marshall Harlan: The Last Whig Justice Loren P. Beth University Press of Kentucky, 1992          products you might be interested in search for books anglo-british, conservative, conspiratorial, interpretation, libertarian, persecution      toavi.com    web we recommend Now You Know randomly chosen book: English-Czech and Czech-English Dictionary