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Engraved portrait of John Bunyan, author (1628-1688)
No full textEngraved portrait of John Bunyan, author (1628-1688) drawn by Derby from an authentic portrait & engraved by W. Hol
Parliament and the Navy, 1688-1714
Full text linkIn these years parliament, particularly the House of Commons, greatly increased its authority. Naval administration and naval operations provided many of the incentives and issues that led parliament to increase its power and status. Despite the diversity of personalities and political outlook within parliament the majority in both Houses was united in certain attitudes which governed their approach to naval affairs. These attitudes, a consciousness of England's vulnerability to sea-borne invasion, a belief in English sovereignty of the seas, are described in the first chapter. In the same chapter the ways in which these attitudes were modified by the developments between 1688 and 1714, particularly increasing parliamentary knowledge of naval affairs and political organisation, are considered. The interplay between these attitudes, developments and the events of two wars provided the background to the legislation that affected the navy. The ways in which these laws were initiated and shaped by parliamentary activities are considered in the next five chapters. Each of these chapters deals with the contribution of parliamentary legislation to one aspect of naval administration- finance, provision of material, trade protection, manning and the maintenance of naval morale. The provision of money to the navy was the issue that interested most members of parliament and it was consideration of this topic that led to the most decisive acquisitions of parliamentary power. In a strictly naval context it was trade protection, most obviously the concern of a merchant minority that led to laws which greatly increased the strength and responsibilities of-the navy at the same time as they limited the authority of the monarch. The ways in which consideration of naval issues educated parliament in the techniques of power are obvious and more tangible than the contribution of parliament to the growth of British sea power. The last chapter assesses the parliamentary contribution to the dominance at sea which the navy gained between 1688 and 1714
Wellsprings of a 'World War': An early English attempt to conquer Canada during King William's war, 1688-97
Full text linkThis is the author's PDF version of an article published in Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History© 2006. The definitive version is available at www.tandf.co.uk/journals/FICHThis article discusses the military history of the early years of King William's War, 1688-97, including an early attempt to conquer French Canada in 1690 by Sir William Phips. The article places this within differeing interpretations of the military historiography of early modern colonial America.This article was submitted to the RAE2008 for the University of Chester - History
Religion and the Constitution to 1688
No full textThis chapter provides an in-depth analysis of the multifarious ways in which religion and the British constitution interacted down to the Reformation, explores the impact of that upheaval and the search for a new church-state nexus down to the Glorious Revolution of 1688
A 'Liberal' Revolution? 1688 as Sattelzeit
Full text linkThis paper reflects on the nature of the English revolution of 1688, examining the way in which the revolution has tended to be presented as a temporal marker. While the notion of the revolution as the founding moment in the establishment of a liberal political order has largely been abandoned, the idea of 1688 as a historical watershed has proved persistent. Recent historical interpretations oscillate between seeing the revolution as representing the end of earlier historical processes (the reformation, the mid-century revolution) and seeing it as the beginning of modernity. The 1696 Association to William III has been identified by scholars such as Steven Pincus and Mark Knights as revealing the modernizing effect of the revolution. This article examines the same moment, employing Reinhart Kosseleck’s notion of Sattelzeit to instead argue for 1688 as a transitionary period in which multiple senses of time and historical change co-existed
Ordonnance des cinq especes de colonnes selon la methode des anciens.
No full textTitle vignette: arms of Louis XIV. Engraved head-piece and decorative initial; woodcut tail-piece; engraved plates.Signatures: pi² a-h² A-2H².Catalogo ragionato dei libri d'arte e d'antichità posseduti dal conte Cicognara,Mode of access: Internet.Library's c. 2 bound with: Des cinq ordres d'architecture de Vincent Scamozzi ... A Paris : Chez Jean Baptiste Coignard ..., 1685. (85-B12332
Il giornale de' letterati (1688)
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France 1688
No full textWit, Frederik de. Atlas. Amsterdam : Frederick de Wit, [1688?] [plate 7]
Notes: Imprint: Amstelodami : Ex officina Frederici de Wit, [1688?].; "Cum privil. D.D. ord. Holl. et Westfrisiae."; Relief shown pictorially.; Prime meridian: Ferro.Color;1:2,400,00
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