The religious and political history of late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century England is typically written in terms of conflict and division. This book reveals how civic celebration, designed as an expression of unity and amity, was often used for partisan purposes, reaching a peak in the 1710s.
The religious and political history of late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century England is typically written in terms of conflict and division. T...
The Wakefields were a family of adventurers with a vision of empire which was to color the thinking of the Victorian age. This study describes in detail their attempt to impose an early Victorian pattern on one corner of Polynesia and the tensions that resulted therefrom. It shows the early Victorian mind adapting itself to the shocks of a new and varied environment and the response of the Polynesians to the challenge of an unexpected invasion, including that of European diseases which threatened to destroy them.
The Wakefields were a family of adventurers with a vision of empire which was to color the thinking of the Victorian age. This study describes in d...
