Richard Hanley
Biographic Data
| ID | 1286650 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Hanley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Hanley |
| SIGNATURE | HANLEY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | New College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3293-6677 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Nobility and the Making of Race in Eighteenth-Century Britain , by Tim McInerney
Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism, by Catherine Hall
Adam Smith's inquiry into the nature and causes of the death of nations
Daniel Defoe in Context
The Philosophical Tradition
Defoe was not a philosopher, yet his work demands attention from a philosophical perspective for two reasons. One is contextual. Defoe’s literary career in the first quarter of the eighteenth century coincided with a remarkable period in the history of British philosophy. Second, Defoe frequently takes up themes addressed by the major philosophers of his day, and thus familiarity with their central concerns and arguments will be helpful to his re…
‘The Happiest and Most Honourable Period of My Life’: Adam Smith’s Service to the University of Glasgow
L’éducation du prince selon Fénelon: De l’amour-propre à la justice
Auteur de Télémaque , Fénelon est peut-être le contributeur le plus important au genre « miroirs aux princes » en France dans la période moderne. Mais son livre célébré par tout le monde comme un exemple classique de ce genre n’est pas la contribution la plus importante de Fénelon à ce genre. Cet honneur est réservé à un autre texte : l’ Examen de conscience sur les devoirs de la royauté . Cet article présente quelques réflexions sur ce texte oub…
Henry Redhead Yorke, Colonial Radical: Politics and Identity in the Atlantic World, 1772–1813, by Amanda Goodrich
The experience of marginality has always been a key concern for historians of the revolutionary black Atlantic. Biographical and micro-historical approaches in particular have an awkward tendency of presenting us with square pegs where we only have round holes: stubbornly inconsistent individuals who frustrate our nice, neat models. In this meticulously researched new biography, Amanda Goodrich brings one such seemingly contradictory actor from t…
Prudence, or On Education
Chapter 1 examines Fénelon’s contributions as an educator. It focuses on four texts indispensable to appreciating the methods and aims of his masterwork Telemachus . These include the book-length Dialogues on Eloquence and Education of Girls , and his shorter Letter to the Academy and “Advice on Education.” In interpreting these texts, it argues that fundamental to them—and indeed to Fénelon’s political philosophy as a whole—is Fénelon’s claim th…
Moderation, or On Economics
Chapter 2 offers an overview and interpretation of Fénelon’s economic thought. Contra those who have found in Fénelon a precursor to certain radical economic ideologies, it argues that attempting to understand his economic positions via such categories is mistaken. Fénelon in fact stakes out substantively moderate economic positions on three fronts: his belief that the proper end of political economy is sufficiency and not austerity, his emphasis…
Children Against Slavery: Juvenile Agency and the Sugar Boycotts in Britain
In late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain, many contemporaries observed a striking phenomenon: that children were especially active in the boycotts of sugar produced by enslaved people. First-hand accounts often suggested that children's activism was unilateral and unmediated, whereas historians of British abolitionism have tended to assume that children were passive recipients of antislavery literature and adult influence. Engagin…
Our Great Purpose: Adam Smith on Living a Better Life
Bringing Religion Back In: Remarks on Gordon Graham for the Journal of Scottish Philosophy
Black Jokes, White Humour: Africans in English Caricature, 1769–1819, by Temi Odumosu
Temi Odumosu has produced a powerful, incisive and vital contribution to a desperately under-populated field. While the few extant modern histories of Africans in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain all acknowledge the significance of visual representations in constructing and reflecting popular racial thought, this is the first monograph since David Dabydeen’s classic Hogarth’s Blacks (1985) to be dedicated to the image of the African in …
Beyond Slavery and Abolition: Black British Writing, c.1770–1830
The first full-length historical study of pre-abolition black British writing, this book challenges established narratives of eighteenth-century black history that focus almost exclusively on slavery and abolition. Ryan Hanley expands our perspectives to encompass the often neglected but important black writers of the time, and highlights their contribution to politics, culture, and the arts. He considers the lives and works of contemporary black…
Books by Our Readers
As Routledge's new text for public diplomacy courses, this book offers a modern guide for how to practice strategic communication around the globe. Drawing upon interviews
Slavery Hinterland: Transatlantic slavery and continental Europe, 1680–1850
Slavery Hinterland: transatlantic slavery and continental Europe, 1680–1850." Social History, 42(2), pp. 299–300
Fénelon’s Telemachus
This paper examines three aspects of the treatment of the relationship of love to virtue in François Fénelon’s Telemachus. As one of the great French intellectual figures of the early eighteenth century, Fenelon was at first admired but then banished from the royal court. This was largely because of Telemachus, an imagined narrative of the prince’s search for his wandering father, Ulysses, during which he absorbs many moral and political lessons.…
A radical change of heart: Robert Wedderburn's last word on slavery
This article introduces to modern scholarship An Address to Lord Brougham and Vaux, a recently rediscovered anti-abolitionist tract by the black radical author and orator Robert Wedderburn, written in 1831, towards the end of his life. It gives a brief biography of the author and introduces some of the key themes that characterised his earlier work. Questions of authenticity and authority are raised in the context of earlier appropriations of Wed…
Slavery and the Birth of Working-Class Racism in England, 1814–1833 the Alexander Prize Essay
This paper examines racist discourse in radical print culture from the end of the Napoleonic Wars to the passing of the Abolition of Slavery Act in Britain. Acknowledging the heterogeneity of working-class ideology during the period, it demonstrates that some radical writers actively sought to dehumanise enslaved and free black people as a means of promoting the interests of the white working class in England. It argues that by promoting a partic…
Inhuman Traffick: The International Struggle against the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Following on from the success of Trevor Getz’s Abina and the Important Men and Ronald Schechter’s Mendoza the Jew, this is the third ‘graphic history’ to be published by Oxford University Press sin
The Royal Slave: Nobility, Diplomacy and the “African Prince” in Britain, 1748–1752
William Ansah Sessarakoo, the son of a powerful Fante slave trader on the Gold Coast, was tricked and sold into slavery in Barbados by a British ship’s captain during the 1740s. He was emancipated and brought to Britain in 1748, where he enjoyed a brief period of national celebrity before returning to the Gold Coast in 1750. This paper examines the specific political and cultural circumstances surrounding his remarkable journey, through the lens …
Calvinism, Proslavery and James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw
In the autobiography of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, the first black author to be published in Britain, slavery was represented at best neutrally and at worst as spiritually and socially beneficial. Re-reading Gronniosaw's Narrative in the context of the Calvinist and Dutch Reformed confessional networks facilitating its composition and publication enables us to understand how and why a former slave would produce a text apparently advocating …
Fannie Barrier Williams: Crossing the borders of region and raceWanda A. HENDRICKS
Unlike her associates Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington, Fannie Barrier Williams does not enjoy expansive fame beyond the academy as a leading activist for black rights. Yet Barrier Willi
Capitalism's Two Cultures
No End in Sight: Causal Loops in Philosophy, Physics and Fiction
Slavery and the Birth of Working-Class Racism in England, 1814–1833 the Alexander Prize Essay
This paper examines racist discourse in radical print culture from the end of the Napoleonic Wars to the passing of the Abolition of Slavery Act in Britain. Acknowledging the heterogeneity of working-class ideology during the period, it demonstrates that some radical writers actively sought to dehumanise enslaved and free black people as a means of promoting the interests of the white working class in England. It argues that by promoting a partic…
Children Against Slavery: Juvenile Agency and the Sugar Boycotts in Britain
In late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain, many contemporaries observed a striking phenomenon: that children were especially active in the boycotts of sugar produced by enslaved people. First-hand accounts often suggested that children's activism was unilateral and unmediated, whereas historians of British abolitionism have tended to assume that children were passive recipients of antislavery literature and adult influence. Engagin…
Slavery Hinterland: Transatlantic slavery and continental Europe, 1680–1850
Slavery Hinterland: transatlantic slavery and continental Europe, 1680–1850." Social History, 42(2), pp. 299–300
A radical change of heart: Robert Wedderburn's last word on slavery
This article introduces to modern scholarship An Address to Lord Brougham and Vaux, a recently rediscovered anti-abolitionist tract by the black radical author and orator Robert Wedderburn, written in 1831, towards the end of his life. It gives a brief biography of the author and introduces some of the key themes that characterised his earlier work. Questions of authenticity and authority are raised in the context of earlier appropriations of Wed…
From the Guest Editors
Different Times, Different Places: Histories of Infrastructure Development
The articles in this focus issue evolvedfrom papers originally presentedduring two urban infrastructure sessions of the November 1999 annual meeting of the Social Science History Association. Claire Felbinger andRichardHanley jointly chaired those sessions at the Fort Worth conference. Each article, in its way, details the elements necessary to develop urban infrastructures—powerful decision makers, the right social conditions, adequate funding, …
Moving People, Goods and Information in the 21st Century: The Cutting-Edge Infrastructures of Networked Cities
Globalisation and technological innovation have changed the way people, goods, and information move through and about cities. To remain, or become, economically and environmentally sustainable, cities and their regions must adapt to these changes by creating cutting-edge infrastructures that integrate advanced technologies, communications, and multiple modes of transportation. The book defines cutting-edge infrastructures, details their importanc…
No End in Sight: Causal Loops in Philosophy, Physics and Fiction
The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Language
David Hume and the Modern Problem of Honor
Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Language
Capitalism's Two Cultures
Inhuman Traffick: The International Struggle against the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Following on from the success of Trevor Getz’s Abina and the Important Men and Ronald Schechter’s Mendoza the Jew, this is the third ‘graphic history’ to be published by Oxford University Press sin
The Royal Slave: Nobility, Diplomacy and the “African Prince” in Britain, 1748–1752
William Ansah Sessarakoo, the son of a powerful Fante slave trader on the Gold Coast, was tricked and sold into slavery in Barbados by a British ship’s captain during the 1740s. He was emancipated and brought to Britain in 1748, where he enjoyed a brief period of national celebrity before returning to the Gold Coast in 1750. This paper examines the specific political and cultural circumstances surrounding his remarkable journey, through the lens …
Calvinism, Proslavery and James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw
In the autobiography of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, the first black author to be published in Britain, slavery was represented at best neutrally and at worst as spiritually and socially beneficial. Re-reading Gronniosaw's Narrative in the context of the Calvinist and Dutch Reformed confessional networks facilitating its composition and publication enables us to understand how and why a former slave would produce a text apparently advocating …
Fannie Barrier Williams: Crossing the borders of region and raceWanda A. HENDRICKS
Unlike her associates Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington, Fannie Barrier Williams does not enjoy expansive fame beyond the academy as a leading activist for black rights. Yet Barrier Willi
Fénelon’s Telemachus
This paper examines three aspects of the treatment of the relationship of love to virtue in François Fénelon’s Telemachus. As one of the great French intellectual figures of the early eighteenth century, Fenelon was at first admired but then banished from the royal court. This was largely because of Telemachus, an imagined narrative of the prince’s search for his wandering father, Ulysses, during which he absorbs many moral and political lessons.…
A radical change of heart: Robert Wedderburn's last word on slavery
This article introduces to modern scholarship An Address to Lord Brougham and Vaux, a recently rediscovered anti-abolitionist tract by the black radical author and orator Robert Wedderburn, written in 1831, towards the end of his life. It gives a brief biography of the author and introduces some of the key themes that characterised his earlier work. Questions of authenticity and authority are raised in the context of earlier appropriations of Wed…
Slavery and the Birth of Working-Class Racism in England, 1814–1833 the Alexander Prize Essay
This paper examines racist discourse in radical print culture from the end of the Napoleonic Wars to the passing of the Abolition of Slavery Act in Britain. Acknowledging the heterogeneity of working-class ideology during the period, it demonstrates that some radical writers actively sought to dehumanise enslaved and free black people as a means of promoting the interests of the white working class in England. It argues that by promoting a partic…
Books by Our Readers
As Routledge's new text for public diplomacy courses, this book offers a modern guide for how to practice strategic communication around the globe. Drawing upon interviews
Slavery Hinterland: Transatlantic slavery and continental Europe, 1680–1850
Slavery Hinterland: transatlantic slavery and continental Europe, 1680–1850." Social History, 42(2), pp. 299–300
Beyond Slavery and Abolition: Black British Writing, c.1770–1830
The first full-length historical study of pre-abolition black British writing, this book challenges established narratives of eighteenth-century black history that focus almost exclusively on slavery and abolition. Ryan Hanley expands our perspectives to encompass the often neglected but important black writers of the time, and highlights their contribution to politics, culture, and the arts. He considers the lives and works of contemporary black…
Our Great Purpose: Adam Smith on Living a Better Life
Bringing Religion Back In: Remarks on Gordon Graham for the Journal of Scottish Philosophy
Black Jokes, White Humour: Africans in English Caricature, 1769–1819, by Temi Odumosu
Temi Odumosu has produced a powerful, incisive and vital contribution to a desperately under-populated field. While the few extant modern histories of Africans in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain all acknowledge the significance of visual representations in constructing and reflecting popular racial thought, this is the first monograph since David Dabydeen’s classic Hogarth’s Blacks (1985) to be dedicated to the image of the African in …
Prudence, or On Education
Chapter 1 examines Fénelon’s contributions as an educator. It focuses on four texts indispensable to appreciating the methods and aims of his masterwork Telemachus . These include the book-length Dialogues on Eloquence and Education of Girls , and his shorter Letter to the Academy and “Advice on Education.” In interpreting these texts, it argues that fundamental to them—and indeed to Fénelon’s political philosophy as a whole—is Fénelon’s claim th…
Moderation, or On Economics
Chapter 2 offers an overview and interpretation of Fénelon’s economic thought. Contra those who have found in Fénelon a precursor to certain radical economic ideologies, it argues that attempting to understand his economic positions via such categories is mistaken. Fénelon in fact stakes out substantively moderate economic positions on three fronts: his belief that the proper end of political economy is sufficiency and not austerity, his emphasis…
Children Against Slavery: Juvenile Agency and the Sugar Boycotts in Britain
In late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain, many contemporaries observed a striking phenomenon: that children were especially active in the boycotts of sugar produced by enslaved people. First-hand accounts often suggested that children's activism was unilateral and unmediated, whereas historians of British abolitionism have tended to assume that children were passive recipients of antislavery literature and adult influence. Engagin…
‘The Happiest and Most Honourable Period of My Life’: Adam Smith’s Service to the University of Glasgow
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