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Aristocratic Whig politics in early-Victorian Yorkshire: Lord Morpeth and his world
… of Carlisle, better known as the early-Victorian Whig aristocrat and politician Lord Morpeth. It challenges accounts which have presented Whiggery as metropolitan in ethos, by demonstrating that Morpeth strongly engaged with the county of Yorkshire as a politician, philanthropist and landlord. It …
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Divisions, debates and `dis-ease': the Rockingham Whig Party and the House of Lords, 1760-1785.
… Parliament. The historiography of the Rockingham Whigs is extensive but underplays the House of Lords, while the literature on the House of Lords is growing, but lacks a major analysis of this significant opposition group. This is, therefore, a contribution to the debate on the nature of party in …
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The American revolution and popular loyalism in the British Atlantic world
… directly challenged the legitimacy of British whig ideology and self-definition, and forced peoples and communities throughout the Empire to rethink commonplace assumptions about their rights and liberties as British subjects. The thesis is organized and focused around five specific British …
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Millard Fillmore, Anti-Mason to Know-Nothing: a moderate in New York politics, 1826-1856
… aspects of the life of the nation's only true Whig President. This may seem to be a strange statement, considering the fact that four different men elected under the Whig banner sat in the White House. However, Harrison and Taylor were military men who had few political ties, and John Tyler was …
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Texas Annexation and the Presidential Election of 1844 in the Richmond, Virginia, and New Orleans, Louisiana, Newspaper
… city: the Richmond Enquirer and the Richmond Whig; and the New Orleans Times-Picayune and the New Orleans Whig. These four newspapers were examined thoroughly from January 1844 to July 1845. In addition to the above newspapers, the Congressional Globe and national voting patterns on Texas …
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Jonathan Swift, political journalist.
… the only work in which he fully supported the Whig Party. In his next tracts, published in 1708, Swift, though nominally still a Whig, was beginning to entertain doubts about his party's position on religion. These doubts culminated in Swift's abandonment of the Whigs in 1710, and his …
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The political debate over war strategy, 1689-1712.
… history. It deals with the debate between the Whig and Tory parties, and their internal conflicts, over the strategy necessary to defeat France in the two wars of this period: the Nine Years' and Spanish Succession Wars. It describes the widespread hopes for a quick victory, centred on the …
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Examining Contemporary Congressional Theories Historically: Essays on the Congress of the Confederate States of America
… improvements) that served as the basis for the Whig party and the Second Party System.
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The Nature and Development of Liberal Protestantism in Waterford 1800-42
… had much in common with their British Whig counterparts, but their ideology had been fundamentally altered by the experience of the late eighteenth century. This thesis focuses on the development of liberalism among the Protestant political élite at local level, examining in particular …
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"""We the People"" and the Rhetorics of Republicanism in America, 1776--1845"
… be understood by examining the Revolutionary Whig and the Constitutional neo-Whig rhetorical visions, which were premised on assumptions about the correct ordering of republican governments and on emotional fears of political power resting in unworthy and dangerous hands. As these republican …
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May 1856: Southern Reaction to Conflict in Kansas and Congress
… the Richmond Enquirer and the Richmond Daily Whig, and two newspapers from the lower South state of Louisiana, the New Orleans Times-Picayune and the New Orleans Bee to determine the extent to which political party sentiment and/or geographic location affected southern opinion towards the two …
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Archaeological Perspectives On Partisan Communities: Francis Marion At Snow'S Island In History, Landscape, And Memory
… community that strongly supported the American Whig resistance against the British. In August of 1780 Francis Marion took command of this community of resistance, or partisan community, consisting of both partisan warriors and civilians, and the region became Marion's base of operations until …
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"Bondage or Barbarism," Parson Brownlow and the Rhetoric of Racism in East Tennessee, 1845-1867.
… the Civil War era. Within the pages of the <em>Whig</em>, Brownlow's famous newspaper, he created a fixed image of African Americans. Brownlow argued that when removed from slavery, people of African descent naturally became barbaric, and thus slavery was needed to ensure the safety of the white …
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The Southern perception of the Trans-Mississippi West, 1845-1853
… as Americans, the partisan differences between Whig and Democrat and the regional conflict between Easterner and Westerner over the desirability, need and rate of expansion divided Southerners. On the potentially divisive issue of slavery expansion, most assumed that the role of slavery in the …
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Inventing Burke: Edmund Burke and the Conservative Party, 1790-1918
… century Conservatives considered Burke a "Whig" who had erred on most critical issues: slavery, Crown prerogative, Ireland, empire. </p> <p>In the twentieth century, however, the advent of universal suffrage and the demise of the Liberal party forced Conservatives to develop an identity …
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Mr Mercury : a biographical study of Edward Baines with special reference to his role as editor, author and politician
… for individual freedom as expressed through Whig-Liberalism and the cause of Nonconformism. The thesis then follows a chronological approach. The years 1801 to 1815 witnessed his campaign on behalf of the merchants and manufacturers of the West Riding and the active political role he adopted …
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