Trial of Thomas Spence in 1801 Together with His Description of Spensonia, Constitution of Spensonia, End of Oppression, Recantation of the End of Oppression, Newcastle on Tyne Lecture ...
Title | Trial of Thomas Spence in 1801 Together with His Description of Spensonia, Constitution of Spensonia, End of Oppression, Recantation of the End of Oppression, Newcastle on Tyne Lecture ... PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Spence |
Publisher | |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 1917 |
Genre | Civil rights |
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The Political Thought of Thomas Spence
Title | The Political Thought of Thomas Spence PDF eBook |
Author | Matilde Cazzola |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 270 |
Release | 2021-11-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1000480844 |
The book is an intellectual analysis of the political ideas of English radical thinker Thomas Spence (1750–1814), who was renowned for his "Plan", a proposal for the abolition of private landownership and the replacement of state institutions with a decentralized parochial organization. This system would be realized by means of the revolution of the "swinish multitude", the poor labouring class despised by Edmund Burke and adopted by Spence as his privileged political interlocutor. While he has long been considered an eccentric and anachronistic figure, the book sets out to demonstrate that Spence was a deeply original, thoroughly modern thinker, who translated his themes into a popular language addressing the multitude and publicized his Plan through chapbooks, tokens, and songs. The book is therefore a history of Spence's political thought "from below", designed to decode the subtle complexity of his Plan. It also shows that the Plan featured an excoriating critique of colonialism and slavery as well as a project of global emancipation. By virtue of its transnational scope, the Plan made landfall in the British West Indies a few years after Spence's death. Indeed, Spencean ideas were intellectually implicated in the largest slave revolt in the history of Barbados.
Thomas Spence and His Connections
Title | Thomas Spence and His Connections PDF eBook |
Author | Olive Durant Rudkin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 1927 |
Genre | Land tenure |
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Bulletin of the British Library of Political and Economic Science
Title | Bulletin of the British Library of Political and Economic Science PDF eBook |
Author | British Library of Political and Economic Science |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1338 |
Release | 1926 |
Genre | |
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The Life and Times of Thomas Spence
Title | The Life and Times of Thomas Spence PDF eBook |
Author | P Mary Ashraf |
Publisher | |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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Burke, Paine, Godwin, and the Revolution Controversy
Title | Burke, Paine, Godwin, and the Revolution Controversy PDF eBook |
Author | Marilyn Butler |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 1984-06-14 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780521286565 |
Analysis of the great Revolution debate of late eighteenth century England, inspired by the French Revolution, reveals how the passions of oppositional writers were sufficiently aroused to create a "pamphlet war."
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Title | The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 710 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Union catalogs |
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