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Samuel Johnson: The Arc of the Pendulum offers unique insight into the works of Samuel Johnson by re-considering William Hazlitt's oft-cited comparison between Johnson's prose and a pendulum. In 1819, William Hazlitt condemned Samuel Johnson's prose style as 'a species of rhyming' in which 'the close of the period follows as mechanically as the oscillation of a pendulum, the sense is balanced with the sound'. Predictable, formulaic, and unresponsive, Hazlitt's Johnson was 'incapable of latitude and compromise, a mere automaton who rebounded from one position to its opposite extreme'. This collection of essays focuses on Johnson's works, rather than perceptions of his personality, and argues that Johnson's perceived erratic opinions reflect an understanding of the complexity, instability, and contradictions of the world in which he lived. The volume challenges Hazlitt's influential reading of the Johnsonian pendulum, focusing on the uses and enjoyments of inconsistency, and the varieties of instability, irresolution, and active change which are revealed by and within Johnson. Chapters from a strong team of contributors present new perspectives on Johnson's work, life, and reception. The chapters address questions of style, authority, language, lexicography, and biography across a range of Johnson's writings from the early poetry to the late prose. Johnson emerges from these chapters not as a writer trapped within a set of oppositions, but as one who engages imaginatively and vigorously with flux, dynamism, and inconclusiveness. From the late eighteenth century onwards, to be 'Johnsonian' has typically been made synonymous with firm resolution and trenchant opinion, with polysyllabic excess and a style removed from the exigencies and accidents of ordinaryexistence. And yet, as this volume suggests, Johnson's life and writings embody the critical and creative play of ideas, a form of interaction with the world which is shaped by instability, contradiction, and com ...|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/39015249/samuel-johnson-freya-johnston-9780199654345.jpg|9780199654345|Samuel Johnson : Hardback : Oxford University Press : 9780199654345 : 18 Oct 2012 : This book offers wide-ranging coverage of Samuel Johnson's life, work, and reception across fifteen thematically cohesive chapters. Taking as its point of departure Wi ...|new|1|1|34|49.49|0|GBP|Freya Johnston|Oxford University Press|18 Oct 2012|Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 9780199654383|The Reformation of the Landscape|30.82|https://wordery.com/the-reformation-of-the-landscape-alexandra-walsham-9780199654383|The Reformation of the Landscape is a richly detailed and original study of the relationship between the landscape of Britain and Ireland and the tumultuous religious changes of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It explores how the profound theological and liturgical transformations that marked the era between 1500 and 1750 both shaped, and were in turn shaped by, the places and spaces within the physical environment in which they occurred. Moving beyond churches, cathedrals, and monasteries, it investigates how the Protestant and Catholic Reformations affected perceptions and practices associated with trees, woods, springs, rocks, mountain peaks, prehistoric monuments, and other distinctive topographical features of the British Isles. Drawing on extensive research and embracing insights from a range of disciplines, Alexandra Walsham examines the origins, immediate consequences, and later repercussions of these movements of religious renewal, together with the complex but decisive modifications of belief and behaviour to which they gave rise. It demonstrates how ecclesiastical developments intersected with other intellectual and cultural trends, including the growth of antiquarianism and the spread of the artistic and architectural Renaissance, the emergence of empirical science and shifting fashions within the spheres of medicine and healing. Set within a chronological framework that stretches backwards towards the early Middle Ages and forwards into the nineteenth century, the book assesses the critical part played by the landscape in forging confessional identities and in reconfiguring collective and social memory. It illuminates the ways in which the visible world was understood and employed by the diverse religious communities that occupied the British Isles, and shows how it became a battleground in which bitter struggles about the significance of the Christian and pagan past were waged.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/e6e550ec/the-reformation-of-the-landscape-alexandra-walsham-9780199654383.jpg|9780199654383|The Reformation of the Landscape : Paperback : Oxford University Press : 9780199654383 : 13 Mar 2012 : A richly detailed and original study of the relationship between the landscape of Britain and Ireland, and the tumultuous religious changes of the s ...|new|1|1|1|34.49|0|GBP|Alexandra Walsham|Oxford University Press|13 Mar 2012|British & Irish history 9780199654901|Essential Revision Notes for Cardiology KBA|78.89|https://wordery.com/essential-revision-notes-for-cardiology-kba-ali-khavandi-9780199654901|As the first revision text aimed specifically at the Knowledge-Based Assessment, Revision Notes for Cardiology is the cornerstone of your revision for this new and compulsory examination. Each chapter exactly maps the core cardiology training curriculum, giving measurable assurance that you are getting the information you need to pass. Each chapter is written by a senior cardiology trainee in collaboration with a senior consultant who has expertise in that specific field, ensuring that the content is both authoritative and accessible. Drawing on the latest guidelines and documents, the concise, bullet-pointed layout allows easy access to and digestion of the key points you'll need during revision. Numerous tables, boxes and figures make this the ideal accompaniment to retaining the large and varied amount of information needed to pass the examination.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/bcefc4a7/essential-revision-notes-for-cardiology-kba-ali-khavandi-9780199654901.jpg|9780199654901|Essential Revision Notes for Cardiology KBA : Paperback : Oxford University Press : 9780199654901 : 15 Apr 2014 : The first revision text aimed specifically at the Knowledge-Based Assessment, Essential Revision Notes for Cardiology KBA exactly maps th ...|new|1|1|32|79.00|0|GBP|Ali Khavandi|Oxford University Press|15 Apr 2014|Cardiovascular medicine 9780199652709|Oxford Guide to Effective Writing and Speaking|10.29|https://wordery.com/oxford-guide-to-effective-writing-and-speaking-john-seely-9780199652709|The Oxford Guide to Effective Writing and Speaking is the essential guide for everyone who needs to communicate in clear and effective English, both written and spoken. John Seely looks at the key factors to consider in tailoring your material so that you get your message across, such as understanding the demands of particular audiences, subjects, and situations. Clearly organized, the book is arranged in four sections: A Communicating in everyday life - covers a wide range of communications including writing emails to giving presentations and preparing reports. B Getting your message across - focuses on important factors such as the audience, the subject, time, and purpose. C Communication tools - offers advice on grammar, vocabulary, spelling, and punctuation to ensure that communication is accurate as well as appropriate. D The process of writing - looks at what's involved in writing longer pieces, including planning and drafting, research, summaries, editing, and presentation. Full of practical guidance, this book also includes helpful 'You Try' sections and 'guidelines' to practise and reinforce what you've learnt. The answers to the exercises in the 'You Try' sections can be found at the back of the book. This is the most comprehensive guide to using English for effective communication available; it covers an unrivalled range of situations and requirements, making it ideal for use at work, at school and university, or at home.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/61e3f444/oxford-guide-to-effective-writing-and-speaking-john-seely-9780199652709.jpg|9780199652709|Oxford Guide to Effective Writing and Speaking : Paperback : Oxford University Press : 9780199652709 : 10 Oct 2013 : The Oxford Guide to Effective Writing & Speaking is the essential guide for everyone who needs to communicate clearly and effectively. ...|new|1|1|10|14.99|0|GBP|John Seely|Oxford University Press|10 Oct 2013|Writing & editing guides 9780199653850|Replacing Truth|59.99|https://wordery.com/replacing-truth-kevin-scharp-9780199653850|Kevin Scharp proposes an original theory of the nature and logic of truth on which truth is an inconsistent concept that should be replaced for certain theoretical purposes.Replacing Truth opens with an overview of work on the nature of truth (e.g., correspondence theories, deflationism), work on the liar and related paradoxes, and a comprehensive scheme for combining these two literatures into a unified study of the concept truth. Scharp argues that truth is best understood as an inconsistent concept, and proposes a detailed theory of inconsistent concepts that can be applied to the case of truth. Truth also happens to be a useful concept, but its inconsistency inhibits its utility; as such, it should be replaced with consistent concepts that can do truth's job without giving rise to paradoxes. To this end, Scharp offers a pair of replacements, which he dubs ascending truth and descending truth, along with an axiomatic theory of them and a new kind of possible-worlds semantics for this theory. As for the nature of truth, he goes on to develop Davidson's idea that it is best understood as the core of a measurement system for rational phenomena (e.g., belief, desire, and meaning). The book finishes with a semantic theory that treats truth predicates as assessment-sensitive (i.e., their extension is relative to a context of assessment), and a demonstration of how this theory solves the problems posed by the liar and other paradoxes.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/c5849a7e/replacing-truth-kevin-scharp-9780199653850.jpg|9780199653850|Replacing Truth : Hardback : Oxford University Press : 9780199653850 : 04 Jul 2013 : Kevin Scharp proposes an original account of the nature and logic of truth, on which truth is an inconsistent concept that should be replaced for certain theoretical ...|new|1|1|2|62.00|0|GBP|Kevin Scharp|Oxford University Press|04 Jul 2013|Philosophy: logic 9780199653102|Dialogues with the Dead|97.49|https://wordery.com/dialogues-with-the-dead-david-gange-9780199653102|Almost every great figure in nineteenth-century Britain, from Thomas Carlyle to William Gladstone to Charles Darwin, read histories of ancient Egypt and argued about their content. Egypt became a focal point in disputes over the nature of human origins, the patterns underlying human history, the status and purpose of the Bible, and the cultural role of the classics. Egyptian archaeology ingrained its influence everywhere from the lecture halls of the ancient universities to the devotional aids of rural Sunday schools, and the plots of sensation fiction. Dialogues with the Dead shows, for the first time, how Egyptology's development over the century that followed the decipherment of the hieroglyphic script in 1822 can be understood only through its intimate entanglement with the historical, scientific, and religious contentions which defined the era.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/0f4dd9e9/dialogues-with-the-dead-david-gange-9780199653102.jpg|9780199653102|Dialogues with the Dead : Hardback : Oxford University Press : 9780199653102 : 25 Jun 2013 : Egyptology in British Culture and Religion shows, for the first time, how Egyptology's development over the century that followed the decipherment of the hier ...|new|1|1|2|105.00|0|GBP|David Gange|Oxford University Press|25 Jun 2013|Classical history / classical civilisation 9780199653232|Land Law|32.49|https://wordery.com/land-law-elizabeth-cooke-9780199653232|Giving a clear, concise introduction to land law, this book looks at the way in which the law regulates our relationship with the land on which we walk, work, and live. Land law is about the connections between people and land, and also the relationships between people, jostling for space and allocating resources. As people change, so do the ways they use and think about land: land law today looks very different from how it did fifty years ago, and in another generation's time it will have changed again. Elizabeth Cooke introduces the building blocks of land law, namely property rights in land, and explains how they have evolved by a mixture of design and accident. The book examines ownership rights, non-ownership rights, both legal and equitable, and provides analysis of how these different rights can apply to a single piece of land, and how they are managed and enforced. Throughout the book the role of registration is central, and the implications of the Land Registration Act 2002 for English land law are fully explored. The second edition has been updated to incorporate important developments in the law relating to the family home, and in the interaction of land law with the law of human rights. It also benefits from the author's own contribution to the Law Commission's report on easements, covenants, and profits a prendre. Written in an accessible style, this book is an essential read for all those coming to the subject for the first time.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/d6384240/land-law-elizabeth-cooke-9780199653232.jpg|9780199653232|Land Law : Paperback : Oxford University Press : 9780199653232 : 14 Jun 2012 : Written by the Law Commissioner responsible for land law, this second edition is an invaluable resource for students new to the subject. It provides a clear overview of the ...|new|1|1|1|32.49|0|GBP|Elizabeth Cooke|Oxford University Press|14 Jun 2012|Conveyancing law 9780199654321|Strategic Intelligence for the 21st Century|32.78|https://wordery.com/strategic-intelligence-for-the-21st-century-alfred-rolington-9780199654321|Strategic Intelligence for the 21st Century: The Mosaic Method provides an industry insider's assessment of current intelligence methods and offers a new strategic model, directed toward the police, military, and intelligence agencies. The birth of the internet, the advent of 24 hour news and the rise of social media is evidence of how governmen, [PU: Oxford University Press]<

2014, ISBN: 9780199600441

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Samuel Johnson: The Arc of the Pendulum offers unique insight into the works of Samuel Johnson by re-considering William Hazlitt's oft-cited comparison between Johnson's prose and a pendu… Meer...

Samuel Johnson: The Arc of the Pendulum offers unique insight into the works of Samuel Johnson by re-considering William Hazlitt's oft-cited comparison between Johnson's prose and a pendulum. In 1819, William Hazlitt condemned Samuel Johnson's prose style as 'a species of rhyming' in which 'the close of the period follows as mechanically as the oscillation of a pendulum, the sense is balanced with the sound'. Predictable, formulaic, and unresponsive, Hazlitt's Johnson was 'incapable of latitude and compromise, a mere automaton who rebounded from one position to its opposite extreme'. This collection of essays focuses on Johnson's works, rather than perceptions of his personality, and argues that Johnson's perceived erratic opinions reflect an understanding of the complexity, instability, and contradictions of the world in which he lived. The volume challenges Hazlitt's influential reading of the Johnsonian pendulum, focusing on the uses and enjoyments of inconsistency, and the varieties of instability, irresolution, and active change which are revealed by and within Johnson. Chapters from a strong team of contributors present new perspectives on Johnson's work, life, and reception. The chapters address questions of style, authority, language, lexicography, and biography across a range of Johnson's writings from the early poetry to the late prose. Johnson emerges from these chapters not as a writer trapped within a set of oppositions, but as one who engages imaginatively and vigorously with flux, dynamism, and inconclusiveness. From the late eighteenth century onwards, to be 'Johnsonian' has typically been made synonymous with firm resolution and trenchant opinion, with polysyllabic excess and a style removed from the exigencies and accidents of ordinaryexistence. And yet, as this volume suggests, Johnson's life and writings embody the critical and creative play of ideas, a form of interaction with the world which is shaped by instability, contradiction, and com ...|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/39015249/samuel-johnson-freya-johnston-9780199654345.jpg|9780199654345|Samuel Johnson : Hardback : Oxford University Press : 9780199654345 : 18 Oct 2012 : This book offers wide-ranging coverage of Samuel Johnson's life, work, and reception across fifteen thematically cohesive chapters. Taking as its point of departure Wi ...|new|1|1|32|49.49|0|GBP|Freya Johnston|Oxford University Press|18 Oct 2012|Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 9780199654901|Essential Revision Notes for Cardiology KBA|74.05|https://wordery.com/essential-revision-notes-for-cardiology-kba-ali-khavandi-9780199654901|As the first revision text aimed specifically at the Knowledge-Based Assessment, Revision Notes for Cardiology is the cornerstone of your revision for this new and compulsory examination. Each chapter exactly maps the core cardiology training curriculum, giving measurable assurance that you are getting the information you need to pass. Each chapter is written by a senior cardiology trainee in collaboration with a senior consultant who has expertise in that specific field, ensuring that the content is both authoritative and accessible. Drawing on the latest guidelines and documents, the concise, bullet-pointed layout allows easy access to and digestion of the key points you'll need during revision. Numerous tables, boxes and figures make this the ideal accompaniment to retaining the large and varied amount of information needed to pass the examination.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/bcefc4a7/essential-revision-notes-for-cardiology-kba-ali-khavandi-9780199654901.jpg|9780199654901|Essential Revision Notes for Cardiology KBA : Paperback : Oxford University Press : 9780199654901 : 15 Apr 2014 : The first revision text aimed specifically at the Knowledge-Based Assessment, Essential Revision Notes for Cardiology KBA exactly maps th ...|new|1|1|81|79.00|0|GBP|Ali Khavandi|Oxford University Press|15 Apr 2014|Cardiovascular medicine 9780199652709|Oxford Guide to Effective Writing and Speaking|9.96|https://wordery.com/oxford-guide-to-effective-writing-and-speaking-john-seely-9780199652709|The Oxford Guide to Effective Writing and Speaking is the essential guide for everyone who needs to communicate in clear and effective English, both written and spoken. John Seely looks at the key factors to consider in tailoring your material so that you get your message across, such as understanding the demands of particular audiences, subjects, and situations. Clearly organized, the book is arranged in four sections: A Communicating in everyday life - covers a wide range of communications including writing emails to giving presentations and preparing reports. B Getting your message across - focuses on important factors such as the audience, the subject, time, and purpose. C Communication tools - offers advice on grammar, vocabulary, spelling, and punctuation to ensure that communication is accurate as well as appropriate. D The process of writing - looks at what's involved in writing longer pieces, including planning and drafting, research, summaries, editing, and presentation. Full of practical guidance, this book also includes helpful 'You Try' sections and 'guidelines' to practise and reinforce what you've learnt. The answers to the exercises in the 'You Try' sections can be found at the back of the book. This is the most comprehensive guide to using English for effective communication available; it covers an unrivalled range of situations and requirements, making it ideal for use at work, at school and university, or at home.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/61e3f444/oxford-guide-to-effective-writing-and-speaking-john-seely-9780199652709.jpg|9780199652709|Oxford Guide to Effective Writing and Speaking : Paperback : Oxford University Press : 9780199652709 : 10 Oct 2013 : The Oxford Guide to Effective Writing & Speaking is the essential guide for everyone who needs to communicate clearly and effectively. ...|new|1|1|14|14.99|0|GBP|John Seely|Oxford University Press|10 Oct 2013|Writing & editing guides 9780199652006|Global Competition|27.03|https://wordery.com/global-competition-david-gerber-9780199652006|Global competition now shapes economies and societies in ways unimaginable only a few years ago, and competition (or 'antitrust') law is a key component of the legal framework for global competition. These laws are intended to protect competition from distortion and restraint, and on the national level they reflect the relationships between markets, their participants, and those affected by them. The current legal framework for the global economy is provided, however, by national laws and institutions. This means that those few governments that have sufficient 'power' to apply their laws to conduct outside their own territory provide the norms of global competition. This has long meant that the US (and, more recently, the EU) structure global competition, but China and other countries are increasingly using their economic and political leverage to apply their own competition laws to global markets. The result is increasing uncertainty, costs, and conflicts that burden global economic development. This book examines competition law on the global level and reveals its often complex and little-understood dynamics. It focuses on the interactions between national and international legal regimes that are central to these dynamics and a key to understanding them. Part I examines the evolution of the current global system, the factors that have shaped it, how it operates today, and recent efforts to alter that system-e.g., by including competition law in the WTO. Part II focuses on national competition law systems, revealing how national laws and experiences shape global competition law dynamics and how global factors, in turn, shape national laws and experiences. It examines the central roles of US and European law and experience, and it also pays close attention to countries such as China that are playing increasingly important roles in the global competition law arena. Part III analyzes current strategies for improving the legal framework for global competition and ...|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/bf749f9a/global-competition-david-gerber-9780199652006.jpg|9780199652006|Global Competition : Paperback : Oxford University Press : 9780199652006 : 20 Jan 2012 : A key factor in the emerging relationship between law and economic globalization is how global competition now shapes economies and societies. Competition law is ...|new|1|1|21|29.99|0|GBP|David Gerber|Oxford University Press|20 Jan 2012|Competition law / Antitrust law 9780199653102|Dialogues with the Dead|97.49|https://wordery.com/dialogues-with-the-dead-david-gange-9780199653102|Almost every great figure in nineteenth-century Britain, from Thomas Carlyle to William Gladstone to Charles Darwin, read histories of ancient Egypt and argued about their content. Egypt became a focal point in disputes over the nature of human origins, the patterns underlying human history, the status and purpose of the Bible, and the cultural role of the classics. Egyptian archaeology ingrained its influence everywhere from the lecture halls of the ancient universities to the devotional aids of rural Sunday schools, and the plots of sensation fiction. Dialogues with the Dead shows, for the first time, how Egyptology's development over the century that followed the decipherment of the hieroglyphic script in 1822 can be understood only through its intimate entanglement with the historical, scientific, and religious contentions which defined the era.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/0f4dd9e9/dialogues-with-the-dead-david-gange-9780199653102.jpg|9780199653102|Dialogues with the Dead : Hardback : Oxford University Press : 9780199653102 : 25 Jun 2013 : Egyptology in British Culture and Religion shows, for the first time, how Egyptology's development over the century that followed the decipherment of the hier ...|new|1|1|2|105.00|0|GBP|David Gange|Oxford University Press|25 Jun 2013|Classical history / classical civilisation 9780199654321|Strategic Intelligence for the 21st Century|35.84|https://wordery.com/strategic-intelligence-for-the-21st-century-alfred-rolington-9780199654321|Strategic Intelligence for the 21st Century: The Mosaic Method provides an industry insider's assessment of current intelligence methods and offers a new strategic model, directed toward the police, military, and intelligence agencies. The birth of the internet, the advent of 24 hour news and the rise of social media is evidence of how governments and those dealing in intelligence commodities struggle not only toaccess but also to limit the information that is out there. At the same time, recent terrorist atrocities, such as 9/11 and the July 7th bombings in London, have highlighted the need for intelligence cooperation on a global scale - but how can this be achieved? Serving as a call to break from traditional models and forge more deeply and continuously inter-linked relationships,Strategic Intelligence for the 21st Century advocates more fluid, networked operating methods, incorporating far more open-sourced information and data in analysis. Featuring contributions from key figures in the industry, including Sir Colin McColl, R. James Woolsey, and Sir David Phillips, this book presents a history of intelligence developments alongside the current challenges, analysing the impact on society - both from within and due to propaganda and covert action - and the influence wrought by technological innovations. With discussion of the Deep Web, the post-9/11 era, and the resulting impact on civil liberty and police operations,Strategic Intelligence for the 21st Century offers a revolutionary new approach to intelligence analysis and global collaborations.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/8b1d9c3c/strategic-intelligence-for-the-21st-century-alfred-rolington-9780199654321.jpg|9780199654321|Strategic Intelligence for the 21st Century : Paperback : Oxford University Press : 9780199654321 : 06 Dec 2012 : Offers a new model of intelligence analysis, the Mosaic Method, which capitalises on both the strengths and the weaknesses of the informa ...|new|1|1|18|36.49|0|GBP|Alfred Rolington|Oxford University Press|06 Dec 2012|Espionage & secret services 9780199596744|Cosmology and Self in the Apostle Paul|54.72|https://wordery.com/cosmology-and-self-in-the-apostle-paul-troels-engberg-pedersen-9780199596744|Cosmology and Self in the Apostle Paul challenges the traditional reading of Paul. Troels Engberg-Pedersen argues that the usual, mainly cognitive and metaphorical, ways of understanding central Pauline concepts, such as 'being in Christ', 'having God's pneuma (spirit), Christ's pneuma, and Christ himself in one', must be supplemented by a literal understanding that directly reflects Paul's cosmology. Engberg-Pedersen shows that Paul's cosmology, not least his understanding of the pneuma, was a materialist, bodily one: the pneuma was a physical element that would at the resurrection act directly on the ordinary human bodies of believers and transform them into 'pneumatic bodies'. This literal understanding of the future events is then traced back to the Pauline present as Engberg-Pedersen considers how Paul conceived in bodily terms of a range of central themes like his own conversion, his mission, the believers' reception of the pneuma in baptism, and the way the apostle took the pneuma to inform his own and their ways of life from the beginning to the projected end. In developing this picture of Paul's world view, an explicitly philosophically oriented form of interpretation ('philosophical exegesis') is employed, in which the interpreter applies categories of interpretation that make sense philosophically, whether in an ancient or a modern context. For this enterprise Engberg-Pedersen draws in particular on ancient Stoic materialist and monistic physics and cosmology - as opposed to the Platonic, immaterialist and dualistic categories that underlie traditional readings of Paul - and on modern ideas on 'religious experience', 'self', 'body' and 'practice' derived from Foucault and Bourdieu. In this way Paul is shown to have spelled out philosophically his Jewish, 'apocalyptic' world view, which remains a central feature of his thought. The book states the cosmological case for the author's earlier 'ethical' reading of Paul in his prize-winning book,Paul and ...|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/d09871fa/cosmology-and-self-in-the-apostle-paul-troels-engberg-pedersen-, [PU: Oxford University Press]<

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The Atlantic represented a world of opportunity in the eighteenth century, but it represented division also, separating families across its coasts. Whether due to economic shifts, changin… Meer...

The Atlantic represented a world of opportunity in the eighteenth century, but it represented division also, separating families across its coasts. Whether due to economic shifts, changing political landscapes, imperial ambitions, or even simply personal tragedy, many families found themselvesfractured and disoriented by the growth and later fissure of a larger Atlantic world. Such dislocation posed considerable challenges to all individuals who viewed orderly family relations as both a general and a personal ideal. The more fortunate individuals who thus found themselves ''all at sea'' were able to use family letters, with attendant emphases on familiarity, sensibility, and credit, in order to remain connected in times and places of considerable disconnection. Portraying the family as a unified, affectionate, and happy entity in such letters provided a means of surmounting concerns about societies fractured by physical distance, global wars, and increasing social stratification. It could also provide social and economic leverage to individual men and women in certain circumstances. Sarah Pearsall explores the lives and letters of these families, revealing the sometimes shocking stories of those divided by sea. Ranging across the Anglophone Atlantic, including mainland American colonies and states, Britain, and the British Caribbean, Pearsall argues that it was this expandingAtlantic world, much more than the American Revolution, that reshaped contemporary ideals about families, as much as families themselves reshaped the transatlantic world. | Atlantic Families by Sarah M. S. Pearsall Paperback | Indigo Chapters Books > History P10103, Sarah M. S. Pearsall<

ISBN: 9780199600441

The Atlantic represented a world of opportunity in the eighteenth century, but it represented division also, separating families across its coasts. Whether due to economic shifts, changin… Meer...

The Atlantic represented a world of opportunity in the eighteenth century, but it represented division also, separating families across its coasts. Whether due to economic shifts, changing political landscapes, imperial ambitions, or even simply personal tragedy, many families found themselves fractured and disoriented by the growth and later fissure of a larger Atlantic world. Such dislocation posed considerable challenges to all individuals who viewed orderly family relations as both a general and a personal ideal. The more fortunate individuals who thus found themselves "all at sea" were able to use family letters, with attendant emphases on familiarity, sensibility, and credit, in order to remain connected in times and places of considerable disconnection. Portraying the family as a unified, affectionate, and happy entity in such letters provided a means of surmounting concerns about societies fractured by physical distance, global wars, and increasing social stratification. It could also provide social and economic leverage to individual men and women in certain circumstances. Sarah Pearsall explores the lives and letters of these families, revealing the sometimes shocking stories of those divided by sea. Ranging across the Anglophone Atlantic, including mainland American colonies and states, Britain, and the British Caribbean, Pearsall argues that it was this expanding Atlantic world-much more than the American Revolution-that reshaped contemporary ideals about families, as much as families themselves reshaped the transatlantic world. Books, [PU: Oxford University Press]<

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