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Edward Gibbon Wakefield: Builder of the British Commonwealth

Book by Paul Bloomfield; Longman, 1961

Subjects:

Great Britain--Colonies--Australia, Great Britain--Colonies--New Zealand, Wakefield, Edward Gibbon--1796-1862

Collections: History, Entire Library

Edward Gibbon Wakefield By the Same Author UNCOMMON...THE FEW IMAGINARY WORLDS etc . EDWARD GIBBON WAKEFIELD Builder of the British...facing page EDWARD GIBBON WAKEFIELD IN 1850 64...
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Edward Gibbon Wakefield: A Political Reappraisal

Book by John Norman; New Frontiers of Fairfield University, 1963

Subjects:

Wakefield, Edward Gibbon--1796-1862

Collections: History, Entire Library

...British Colonists in North America EDWARD GIBBON WAKEFIELD A POLITICAL REAPPRAISAL...xvi Edward Gibbon Wakefield 10 Bust of Edward Gibbon Wakefield 13...
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Edward Gibbon: His View of Life and Conception of History

Book by Per Fuglum; Akademisk forlag, 1953

Subjects:

Gibbon, Edward--1737-1794

Collections: History, Entire Library

EDWARD GIBBON OSLO STUDIES IN ENGLISH Publications...Institute in the University of Oslo EDWARD GIBBON HIS VIEW OF LIFE AND CONCEPTION...G. Prothero : 'Private Letters of Edward Gibbon' London 1896 . Oslo, August 1953...
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Barbarism and Religion: The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon, 1737-1764 - Vol. 1

Book by J. G. A. Pocock; Cambridge University Press, 1999

Subjects:

Enlightenment--Great Britain, Great Britain--Intellectual Life--18th Century, Rome--History--Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D--Historiography

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

In this first volume, The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon, John Pocock follows Gibbon through his youthful exile in Switzerland and his criticisms of the Encyclopédie and traces the growth of his historical interests down to the conception of the Decline and Fall itself.
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An Eighteenth Century Miscellany: The Classics of the Eighteenth Century Which Typify and Reveal an Era: Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, John Gay, the Earl of Chesterfield, Laurence Sterne, Horace Walpole, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Edward Gibbon, William Blake

Book by Louis Kronenberger; G. P. Putnams Sons, 1936

Subjects:

English Literature--18th Century

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Sterne Horace Walpole Richard Brinsley Sheridan Edward Gibbon William Blake Edited by LOUIS KRONENBERGER...MEMOIRS OF MY LIFE WRITINGS 451 Edward Gibbon: Chapter IX. SONGS OF...

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EDWARD GIBBON WAKEFIELD AND THE COLONIAL DREAM: A Reconsideration

Journal article by William J. Metcalf; The Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 45, 1999

Subjects:

Books--Reviews, Edward Gibbon Wakefield and the Colonial Dream: A Reconsideration (Book)--Reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

EDWARD GIBBON WAKEFIELD AND THE COLONIAL DREAM: A Reconsiderat...Reconsideration by WILLIAM J. METCALF EDWARD GIBBON WAKEFIELD AND THE COLONIAL DREAM: A Reconsideration...illustrated, pp. 220. No price given. Edward Gibbon Wakefield is a name with which we are...
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EDWARD GIBBON WAKEFIELD: Abductor and Mystagogue

Journal article by William J. Metcalf; The Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 45, 1999

Subjects:

Books--Reviews, Edward Gibbon Wakefield: Abductor and Mystagogue (Book)--Reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

EDWARD GIBBON WAKEFIELD: Abductor and Mystagogue...Edinburgh: Ann Barry, 1997, 56pp. Edward Gibbon Wakefield is a name with which we are...1996, the bicentennial of the birth of Edward Gibbon Wakefield, the Turnbull Library in Wellington...
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The Influence of Switzerland on the Life and Writings of Edward Gibbon

Journal article by Jeremy Black; Journal of European Studies, Vol. 33, 2003

Subjects:

The Influence of Switzerland on the Life and Writings of Edward Gibbon (Book)

Collections: Entire Library

The Influence of Switzerland on the Life and Writings of Edward Gibbon. by Jeremy Black By Brian Norman. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2002. Pp. xv + 176. 39.00 pounds sterling. For a...
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The Ironic Detachment of Edward Gibbon

Journal article by Harry Trosman; International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 90, 2009

Subjects:

Memory

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

The Ironic Detachment of Edward Gibbon by Harry Trosman Edward Gibbon, historian of the Roman Empire, began The...pretense and the idealization of skepticism. Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) The early life of the historian...
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Emigration, Economics or Strategy? the British Government and the South Australia Act 1834

Journal article by Jenny Booth; Journal of Australian Studies, 2004

Subjects:

Politics--Analysis

Collections: Entire Library

...promoters of the new colony. (1) Edward Gibbon Wakefield and his supporters...from Sydney in 1829. Written by Edward Gibbon Wakefield but published anonymously...As previously mentioned, until Edward Gibbon Wakefield suggested a nexus between...

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Life in Ancien Regime Vaud

Magazine article by Vivienne Larminie; History Today, Vol. 48, April 1998

Subjects:

Protestantism--History, Switzerland--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...luminaries like Voltaire, Rousseau, Edward Gibbon and Madame de Stael who made it...demands of official religion. When Edward Gibbon stayed in Lausanne he noted a...political rhetoric and action. Edward Gibbon, on the other hand, had seen it...
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Going Critical: American Power and the Consequences of Fiscal Overstretch

Magazine article by Niall Ferguson, Laurence J. Kotlikoff; The National Interest, Fall 2003

Subjects:

Politics--Analysis

Collections: Entire Library

...subject of the finances of the declining empire. --Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Book I, ch. XVII...nation-building as swift as the original advance towards it. As Edward Gibbon once wrote, "the finances of the declining empire" do...
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The British Empire

Magazine article by Max Beloff; History Today, Vol. 46, February 1996

Subjects:

Imperialism--United Kingdom, United Kingdom--Military policy

Collections: History, Entire Library

...empire by Max Beloff I would like to begin by referring to the famous passage in the autobiography of Edward Gibbon: It was at Rome on the fifteenth of October 1764, as I sat musing among the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare...
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The Death of Hume

Magazine article by Stephen Miller; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 19, Summer 1995

Subjects:

Hume, David--Biography, Philosophers--Biography, Religion and ethics--Analysis

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

The death of Hume by Stephen Miller Seventeen seventy-six was a momentous year in Great Britain: Edward Gibbon published volume one of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Adam Smiths Wealth of Nations appeared, the American...
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Listening to Brigitte Bardot

Magazine article by George Neumayr; The American Spectator, Vol. 36, June 2003

Subjects:

Bardot, Brigitte, Books, Islam, Modernization, Social change, Social life & customs

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

Listening to Brigitte Bardot by George Neumayr From the ruins of Old Europe has emerged a new Edward Gibbon: Brigitte Bardot. In her book A Scream in the Silence, the aging sex kitten turns her attention to the decline and fall of Western...

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Sifting through the Wreckage

Newspaper article by Arnold Beichman; The Washington Times, July 19, 1997

Subjects:

Marx, Karl

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Sifting through the wreckage by Arnold Beichman Edward Gibbon wrote that history is "little more than the register of crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." Though Donald Sassoon, the...
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Force of Gravity

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 11, 2007

Subjects:

Kurds

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Byline: Bruce Fein, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES In "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," Edward Gibbon anticipated President Bushs criminal stupidity in post-Saddam Iraq: "History is indeed little more than the register...
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Saint George Looks More Appealing Sans Nationalist Fury

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 7, 2002

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Byline: Clive Davis, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Everyone seems to have a different version of Saint George. Edward Gibbon presented him to us as George of Cappadocia, a corrupt trader to the Roman Army who rose to become the Arian bishop...
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Why We Do Not Face Rome's Fate

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 10, 2009

Subjects:

Goldsworthy, Adrian

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES America need not be Rome in its decline and fall. Many historians, beginning with Edward Gibbon in his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, have tried to apply the lessons of Rome to their own time. If Adrian Goldsworthy...
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`Gladiator' Goes in for the Kill, but Misses

Newspaper article by Gary Arnold; The Washington Times, May 5, 2000

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Gladiator" prompts one to consult a famous source. In an early chapter of "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," Edward Gibbon summarized the characters of the principal dynastic figures depicted in the movie: the esteemed emperor Marcus Aurelius...

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Wakefield, Edward Gibbon

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

WAKEFIELD, EDWARD GIBBON 1796 1862, British colonial statesman. He was attached to the British embassies in Turin (1814 16) and Paris (1820 26), but...
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Putney

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Wandsworth borough, London, England. It is the starting point of the Oxford-Cambridge boat races. Thomas Cromwell and Edward Gibbon were born in Putney, and Algernon Swinburne and William Pitt lived there. Putney Heath was the scene of a duel...
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Sydenham, Charles Edward Poulett Thomson, Baron

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...of the colonial reformers, a group that promoted liberalized but permanent imperial ties. He supported the views of Edward Gibbon Wakefield on systematic colonization. He was made president of the Board of Trade in 1834, and in 1839 he was appointed...
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Stephen, Sir James

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...He promoted the extension of self-government to the colonies and rejected the "systematic colonization" schemes of Edward Gibbon Wakefield , fearing oppression of the native populations. See study by Paul Knaplund (1953...
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South Australia

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Dutch in 1627. The British explorer Matthew Flinders noted likely settlement sites in 1802. Prompted by the writings of Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a British colonial statesman, the English Parliament passed the South Australian Colonization Act in 1834...

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