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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

...Richard Brinsley Sheridan Edward Gibbon William Blake Edited by...WRITINGS 451 Edward Gibbon...of so superb a stuffed shirt as Gibbon, of Pope combining psychopathic...

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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

...Switzerland on the Life and Writings of Edward Gibbon. by Jeremy Black By...made an important contribution to Gibbon scholarship. Italy tends to dominate...Paris as the second place thanks to Gibbons interest in intellectual circles...
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The Rise of Modern Historical Consciousness: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Eighteenth-Century East Asia and Europe

Journal article by Q. Edward Wang; Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Vol. 40, 2003

Subjects:

Buddhism--History, Chinese history--Research, Confucianism--History, Gibbon, Edward, Lamaism--History, Maruyama, Masao

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...converged somewhat in Edward Gibbon (1734-94). (61) Gibbon...some of their findings. Gibbon was, of course, a great...Ming-Ching China," in Q. Edward Wang and Georg G. Iggers...pp. 40-55; and Levine, "Edward Gibbon and the Quarrel between...
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Popular Culture in Microcosm: The Manuscript Diaries of Richard Heritage of Marsh Gibbon, Buckinghamshire

Journal article by Keith Chandler; Folk Music Journal, Vol. 9, 2006

Subjects:

Heritage, Richard--Criticism and interpretation, Heritage, Richard--Works, Popular culture--History, Popular culture--Portrayals

Collections: Entire Library

...freeholders of Marsh Gibbon as Edward Chandler, John Dixon...peripatetic circuit: Edward, 2 January 1763 at...contiguous to Marsh Gibbon, it would be surprising...was born in Marsh Gibbon (adjacent to Charndon...Glazier. His son Edward (baptized 4 October...

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Decline and Fall of Roman Empire

Magazine article by Stephen Goode; Insight on the News, Vol. 14, August 10, 1998

Subjects:

Gibbon, Edward--Works, Liberty--Appreciation

Collections: Entire Library

...well-being of a people than historian Edward Gibbon. It was one of those marriages made in heaven, Edward Gibbons great history of ancient Rome...Republic. The first volume of Gibbons The History of the Decline and...
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For the Serious Student

Magazine article by Steve Bonta; The New American, Vol. 21, February 7, 2005

Subjects:

Gibbon, Edward, Roman culture--History

Collections: Entire Library

...without reference to the venerable Edward Gibbon, whose massive History of the Decline...written. That said, the authority of Gibbon is often overdrawn. His obvious command...their prejudices, of course, but Gibbon attributes the fall of the Roman...
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And Now for the News: The Disturbing Freshness of Gibbon's Decline and Fall

Magazine article by Robert D. Kaplan; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 279, March 1997

Subjects:

Gibbon, Edward, Rome (Ancient state)

Collections: Entire Library

...storage, I came across an old friend--Edward Gibbons The History of the Decline and...transnational age, the voice would be Gibbons, with its sly wit, biting irony...regardless of its other strengths, Gibbons work would never have survived...
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And Now for the News: The Disturbing Freshness of Gibbon's 'Decline and Fall.'

Magazine article by Robert D. Kaplan; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 279, March 1997

Subjects:

Gibbons, Edward--Criticism and interpretation, Historiography--Criticism and interpretation, Rome (Ancient state)--History, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Book)--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Entire Library

...storage, I came across an old friend-Edward Gibbons The History of the Decline and...transnational age, the voice would be Gibbons, with its sly wit, biting irony...regardless of its other strengths, Gibbons work would never have survived...
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Fundamentalism: A Theory

Magazine article by Edward Farley; Cross Currents, Vol. 55, Fall 2005

Subjects:

Fundamentalism--Analysis

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...itself. Thus, the Enlightenment embraced many "reasons" or methods of cognitive exploration and thinking: historical reason (Gibbon), mathematical reason (Newton), nature-oriented reason (Buffon), political and economic reason (Jefferson, Paine), philosophical...

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Car Crash Kills Four Teenagers on a Night out; the Boys: Edward Manders-Naden and James Bowyer Are First and Second from Left, Survivor Matthew Simpson Is Top, Centre, While Kirk Nokes Is on the Right in a White Tie

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 2, 2008

Subjects:

Traffic accidents--Casualties

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

Car Crash Kills Four Teenagers on a Night out; the Boys: Edward Manders-Naden and James Bowyer Are First and Second from Left...25am yesterday. The dead were named as James Bowyer, from Marsh Gibbon in Oxfordshire; EdwardManders-Naden, from Calvert in Buckinghamshire...
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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

...through the wreckage by Arnold Beichman Edward Gibbon wrote that history is "little more than the register...massive, almost 1,000-page book, would surely deny it, Gibbons verdict seems especially apt when applied to the history...
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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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Two Prime Ministers Is One Too Many

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), February 13, 2006

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

...Roman Empire. Historians are unanimous in condemnation. Edward Gibbon was especially withering. "By investing a luxurious youth with the honours of the purple," declared Gibbon, "Marcus had discharged a debt of private gratitude...

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Wakefield, Edward Gibbon

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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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Gibbon, Edward

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

GIBBON, EDWARD 1737 94, English historian, author of The History of the...intellectual, Mme Necker). The two were engaged to be married, but Gibbons father refused consent. Gibbon "sighed as a lover" but "obeyed as a son" and gave up the match...
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Sydenham, Charles Edward Poulett Thomson, Baron

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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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Putney

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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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Stephen, Sir James

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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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