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1 online resource (vi, 202 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-199) and index. |
| Summary |
The first major study of the historical writings of religious dissenters in England between the 1690s and the 1790s, this book redefines the way we understand religious and political identities in the eighteenth century. Dissenting Histories provides a synoptic overview of the development of religious dissent in England between the Restoration and the early nineteenth century, using Dissenters' writings to open up new and different perspectives on how the past was perceived in this period. These writings are located within the wider political culture and the author explores how the long shadow. |
| Contents |
Introduction: remembering the present -- The debt of memory: Edmund Calamy and the Dissenters in Restoration England -- Protestant liberty: Daniel Neal and The history of the Puritans -- Enthusiasts, Puritans and politics: David Hume's History of England -- Englightenment, Republicanism and dissent: William Harris's Histories -- Dissenting histories in the 1770s and 1780s -- 'The fiction of ancestry': Burke, history and the Dissenters -- Conclusion. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Religious thought -- England -- 18th century.
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Religious thought. |
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England. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
Dissenters, Religious -- England -- History -- 18th century.
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Dissenters, Religious. |
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History. |
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Freedom of religion -- England -- History -- 18th century.
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Freedom of religion. |
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Freedom of religion -- Political aspects -- England -- History -- 18th century.
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Christianity and literature -- England -- History -- 18th century.
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Christianity and literature. |
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Freedom of religion.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Seed, John, 1950- Dissenting histories. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2008 0748621512 9780748621514 (OCoLC)65468466 |
| ISBN |
9780748629480 (electronic book) |
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0748629483 (electronic book) |
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1281947628 |
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9781281947628 |
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0748621512 (hardback) |
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9780748621514 (hardback) |
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