Philip Harling
Biographic Data
| ID | 374623 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip Harling |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip |
| FAMILY NAME | Harling |
| SIGNATURE | HARLING P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kentucky |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-8865-5820 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Secular Foundations of the Liberal State in Victorian Britain
The Overseer State: Slavery, Indenture and Governance in the British Empire, 1812–1916 , by Sascha Auerbach
Managing Mobility: The British Imperial State and Global Migration, 1840–1860
Between 1840 and 1860 the British Empire expanded rapidly in scale, with rampant annexation of territory and ruthless suppression of rebellion. These decades also witnessed an unprecedented movement of people across the Empire and around the world, with over 2.6 million emigrants leaving Britain in the 1850s alone. Managing Mobility examines how the British imperial state facilitated the mass migration of its impoverished subjects as labor assets…
Henry J. Miller. A Nation of Petitioners: Petitions and Petitioning in the United Kingdom, 1780–1918
Conspiracy on Cato Street: A Tale of Liberty and Revolution in Regency London by Vic Gatrell
Thanks chiefly to Jane Austen, our abiding sense of Britain’s Regency era (1811–1820) is comforting and mildly comic—a place and a time of squires and spires, quadrilles and calling cards, light romance and heavy repartee. Gatrell’s remarkable book offers a profoundly different and deeply unsettling picture of a savagely hierarchical society ruled by a patrician state at war with the common people. Some of those people were on the verge of starva…
James Heartfield. The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 1838–1956: A History
Assisted Emigration and the Moral Dilemmas of the Mid-Victorian Imperial State
This article examines three voyages of the late 1840s to advance the argument that emigration – often treated by its historians as ‘spontaneous’ – actually involved the laissez-faire mid-Victorian imperial state in significant projects of social engineering. The tale of the Virginius exemplifies that state's commitment to taking advantage of the Famine to convert the Irish countryside into an export economy of large-scale graziers. The tale of th…
The Trouble with Convicts: From Transportation to Penal Servitude, 1840–67
This article makes three points about the death throes of convict transportation. First, the quarrel over transportation shows the double-edged nature of the moral critique of empire in the early Victorian era. Metropolitan criticism of transportation had its roots in the same effort to moralize the empire that was seen in the almost contemporaneous assault on slavery. But transportation was deemed too convenient a means of getting rid of crimina…
The Centrality of Locality: The Local State, Local Democracy, and Local Consciousness in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain
Journal Article The Centrality of Locality: The Local State, Local Democracy, and Local Consciousness in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain Get access Philip Harling Philip Harling 1University of Kentucky Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 9, Issue 2, January 2004, Pages 216–234, https://doi.org/10.3366/jvc.2004.9.2.216 Published: 01 January 2004
A History of Britain
Review Article| May 01 2004 A History of Britain Philip Harling Philip Harling University of Kentucky Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2004) 26 (2): 126–128. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2004.26.2.126 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site…
A History of Britain Simon Schama Liz Hartford Martin Davidson
Equipoise Regained? Recent Trends in British Political History, 1790-1867
The Law of Libel and the Limits of Repression, 1790–1832
The article examines the use of seditious libel and blasphemy as instruments of control during the era of Tory hegemony. It argues that the law of libel was a formidable instrument of repression, but one which was all but abandoned by the legal authorities because it proved to be too unreliable. On the one hand, it placed the writers and vendors of radical literature under the constant threat of prosecution. They could be perpetually threatened b…
Access to Mathematics for Visually Disabled Students Through Multimodal Interaction
Mathematics relies on visual forms of communication and is thus largely inaccessible to people who cannot communicate in this manner because of visual disabilities. This article outlines the Mathtalk project, which addressed this problem by using computers to produce multimodal renderings of mathematical information. This example is unusual in that it is essential to use multiple modalities because of the nature and the difficulty of the applicat…
The Lost Prime Minister: A Life of Sir Charles Dilke.David Nicholls
The Waning of ‘Old Corruption’: The politics of economical reform in Britain, 1779-1846
Most historians of Britain now take for granted that a narrow and mostly landed élite managed to retain its social supremacy throughout much of the 19th century. But as of yet, there is no thorough explanation for the persistence of the old elite's political authority in an age when that authority was seriously questioned by many Britons. In this study, the book furnishes an important part of this explanation. It argues that the mostly Pittite go…
Leigh Hunt's Examiner and the Language of Patriotism
Journal Article Leigh Hunt's Examiner and the Language of Patriotism Get access PHILIP HARLING PHILIP HARLING University of Kentucky Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXI, Issue 444, November 1996, Pages 1159–1181, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXI.444.1159 Published: 01 November 1996
Henry Goulburn 1784-1856: A Political Biography , by Brian Jenkins
"Henry Goulburn 1784-1856: A Political Biography, by Brian Jenkins." Canadian Journal of History, 31(3), pp. 462–463
The Duke of York affair (1809) and the complexities of wartime patriotism
The essay examines the forced resignation of the duke of York as commander-in-chief of the British army in 1809 as a case study in the complexities of patriotism during the Napoleonic war. The recent work of Linda Colley and others has emphasized the conservative use of wartime patriotism as a means of defending the established political order in general and royalty in particular. But the parliamentary and outdoor pressure that prompted the duke …
The Waning of 'Old Corruption: The Politics of Economical Reform in Britain, 1779-1846
Most historians of Britain now take for granted that a narrow and mostly landed elite managed to retain its social supremacy throughout much of the nineteenth century. But as yet, there is no throrough explanation for the persistence of the old elite's political authority in an age when that authority was seriously questioned by many Britons. In this original study, Philip Harling furnishes an important part of this explanation. He argues that th…
"Rethinking "Old Corruption
RETHINKING "OLD CORRUPTION" Get access Philip Harling Philip Harling University of KentuckyLexington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 147, Issue 1, May 1995, Pages 127–158, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/147.1.127 Published: 01 May 1995
From “Fiscal-Military” State to Laissez-faire State, 1760–1850
The recent historiographical revolution in our understanding of the eighteenth-century state has broad implications, analytical as well as empirical, that are only beginning to be plumbed. Due largely to the work of Patrick O'Brien and John Brewer, the old picture—of a small, amateurish, corrupt central apparatus largely maintained (between sporadic wars) to dignify the crown and assist gentlemanly (i.e., parliamentary) plunder—has been pretty co…
The Power of Persuasion: Central Authority, Local Bureaucracy and the New Poor Law
Journal Article The Power of Persuasion: Central Authority, Local Bureaucracy and the New Poor Law Get access PHILIP HARLING PHILIP HARLING Temple UniversityPhiladelphia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVII, Issue CCCCXXII, January 1992, Pages 30–53, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVII.CCCCXXII.30 Published: 01 January 1992
From “Fiscal-Military” State to Laissez-faire State, 1760–1850
The recent historiographical revolution in our understanding of the eighteenth-century state has broad implications, analytical as well as empirical, that are only beginning to be plumbed. Due largely to the work of Patrick O'Brien and John Brewer, the old picture—of a small, amateurish, corrupt central apparatus largely maintained (between sporadic wars) to dignify the crown and assist gentlemanly (i.e., parliamentary) plunder—has been pretty co…
The Law of Libel and the Limits of Repression, 1790–1832
The article examines the use of seditious libel and blasphemy as instruments of control during the era of Tory hegemony. It argues that the law of libel was a formidable instrument of repression, but one which was all but abandoned by the legal authorities because it proved to be too unreliable. On the one hand, it placed the writers and vendors of radical literature under the constant threat of prosecution. They could be perpetually threatened b…
The Power of Persuasion: Central Authority, Local Bureaucracy and the New Poor Law
Journal Article The Power of Persuasion: Central Authority, Local Bureaucracy and the New Poor Law Get access PHILIP HARLING PHILIP HARLING Temple UniversityPhiladelphia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVII, Issue CCCCXXII, January 1992, Pages 30–53, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVII.CCCCXXII.30 Published: 01 January 1992
The Trouble with Convicts: From Transportation to Penal Servitude, 1840–67
This article makes three points about the death throes of convict transportation. First, the quarrel over transportation shows the double-edged nature of the moral critique of empire in the early Victorian era. Metropolitan criticism of transportation had its roots in the same effort to moralize the empire that was seen in the almost contemporaneous assault on slavery. But transportation was deemed too convenient a means of getting rid of crimina…
The Duke of York affair (1809) and the complexities of wartime patriotism
The essay examines the forced resignation of the duke of York as commander-in-chief of the British army in 1809 as a case study in the complexities of patriotism during the Napoleonic war. The recent work of Linda Colley and others has emphasized the conservative use of wartime patriotism as a means of defending the established political order in general and royalty in particular. But the parliamentary and outdoor pressure that prompted the duke …
"Rethinking "Old Corruption
RETHINKING "OLD CORRUPTION" Get access Philip Harling Philip Harling University of KentuckyLexington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 147, Issue 1, May 1995, Pages 127–158, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/147.1.127 Published: 01 May 1995
Leigh Hunt's Examiner and the Language of Patriotism
Journal Article Leigh Hunt's Examiner and the Language of Patriotism Get access PHILIP HARLING PHILIP HARLING University of Kentucky Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXI, Issue 444, November 1996, Pages 1159–1181, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXI.444.1159 Published: 01 November 1996
The Centrality of Locality: The Local State, Local Democracy, and Local Consciousness in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain
Journal Article The Centrality of Locality: The Local State, Local Democracy, and Local Consciousness in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain Get access Philip Harling Philip Harling 1University of Kentucky Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 9, Issue 2, January 2004, Pages 216–234, https://doi.org/10.3366/jvc.2004.9.2.216 Published: 01 January 2004
Assisted Emigration and the Moral Dilemmas of the Mid-Victorian Imperial State
This article examines three voyages of the late 1840s to advance the argument that emigration – often treated by its historians as ‘spontaneous’ – actually involved the laissez-faire mid-Victorian imperial state in significant projects of social engineering. The tale of the Virginius exemplifies that state's commitment to taking advantage of the Famine to convert the Irish countryside into an export economy of large-scale graziers. The tale of th…
Equipoise Regained? Recent Trends in British Political History, 1790-1867
The Power of Persuasion: Central Authority, Local Bureaucracy and the New Poor Law
Journal Article The Power of Persuasion: Central Authority, Local Bureaucracy and the New Poor Law Get access PHILIP HARLING PHILIP HARLING Temple UniversityPhiladelphia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVII, Issue CCCCXXII, January 1992, Pages 30–53, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVII.CCCCXXII.30 Published: 01 January 1992
From “Fiscal-Military” State to Laissez-faire State, 1760–1850
The recent historiographical revolution in our understanding of the eighteenth-century state has broad implications, analytical as well as empirical, that are only beginning to be plumbed. Due largely to the work of Patrick O'Brien and John Brewer, the old picture—of a small, amateurish, corrupt central apparatus largely maintained (between sporadic wars) to dignify the crown and assist gentlemanly (i.e., parliamentary) plunder—has been pretty co…
"Rethinking "Old Corruption
RETHINKING "OLD CORRUPTION" Get access Philip Harling Philip Harling University of KentuckyLexington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 147, Issue 1, May 1995, Pages 127–158, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/147.1.127 Published: 01 May 1995
The Waning of ‘Old Corruption’: The politics of economical reform in Britain, 1779-1846
Most historians of Britain now take for granted that a narrow and mostly landed élite managed to retain its social supremacy throughout much of the 19th century. But as of yet, there is no thorough explanation for the persistence of the old elite's political authority in an age when that authority was seriously questioned by many Britons. In this study, the book furnishes an important part of this explanation. It argues that the mostly Pittite go…
Leigh Hunt's Examiner and the Language of Patriotism
Journal Article Leigh Hunt's Examiner and the Language of Patriotism Get access PHILIP HARLING PHILIP HARLING University of Kentucky Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXI, Issue 444, November 1996, Pages 1159–1181, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXI.444.1159 Published: 01 November 1996
Henry Goulburn 1784-1856: A Political Biography , by Brian Jenkins
"Henry Goulburn 1784-1856: A Political Biography, by Brian Jenkins." Canadian Journal of History, 31(3), pp. 462–463
The Duke of York affair (1809) and the complexities of wartime patriotism
The essay examines the forced resignation of the duke of York as commander-in-chief of the British army in 1809 as a case study in the complexities of patriotism during the Napoleonic war. The recent work of Linda Colley and others has emphasized the conservative use of wartime patriotism as a means of defending the established political order in general and royalty in particular. But the parliamentary and outdoor pressure that prompted the duke …
The Waning of 'Old Corruption: The Politics of Economical Reform in Britain, 1779-1846
Most historians of Britain now take for granted that a narrow and mostly landed elite managed to retain its social supremacy throughout much of the nineteenth century. But as yet, there is no throrough explanation for the persistence of the old elite's political authority in an age when that authority was seriously questioned by many Britons. In this original study, Philip Harling furnishes an important part of this explanation. He argues that th…
Access to Mathematics for Visually Disabled Students Through Multimodal Interaction
Mathematics relies on visual forms of communication and is thus largely inaccessible to people who cannot communicate in this manner because of visual disabilities. This article outlines the Mathtalk project, which addressed this problem by using computers to produce multimodal renderings of mathematical information. This example is unusual in that it is essential to use multiple modalities because of the nature and the difficulty of the applicat…
The Lost Prime Minister: A Life of Sir Charles Dilke.David Nicholls
The Law of Libel and the Limits of Repression, 1790–1832
The article examines the use of seditious libel and blasphemy as instruments of control during the era of Tory hegemony. It argues that the law of libel was a formidable instrument of repression, but one which was all but abandoned by the legal authorities because it proved to be too unreliable. On the one hand, it placed the writers and vendors of radical literature under the constant threat of prosecution. They could be perpetually threatened b…
Equipoise Regained? Recent Trends in British Political History, 1790-1867
The Centrality of Locality: The Local State, Local Democracy, and Local Consciousness in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain
Journal Article The Centrality of Locality: The Local State, Local Democracy, and Local Consciousness in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain Get access Philip Harling Philip Harling 1University of Kentucky Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 9, Issue 2, January 2004, Pages 216–234, https://doi.org/10.3366/jvc.2004.9.2.216 Published: 01 January 2004
A History of Britain
Review Article| May 01 2004 A History of Britain Philip Harling Philip Harling University of Kentucky Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2004) 26 (2): 126–128. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2004.26.2.126 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site…
A History of Britain Simon Schama Liz Hartford Martin Davidson
The Trouble with Convicts: From Transportation to Penal Servitude, 1840–67
This article makes three points about the death throes of convict transportation. First, the quarrel over transportation shows the double-edged nature of the moral critique of empire in the early Victorian era. Metropolitan criticism of transportation had its roots in the same effort to moralize the empire that was seen in the almost contemporaneous assault on slavery. But transportation was deemed too convenient a means of getting rid of crimina…
Assisted Emigration and the Moral Dilemmas of the Mid-Victorian Imperial State
This article examines three voyages of the late 1840s to advance the argument that emigration – often treated by its historians as ‘spontaneous’ – actually involved the laissez-faire mid-Victorian imperial state in significant projects of social engineering. The tale of the Virginius exemplifies that state's commitment to taking advantage of the Famine to convert the Irish countryside into an export economy of large-scale graziers. The tale of th…
James Heartfield. The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 1838–1956: A History
Conspiracy on Cato Street: A Tale of Liberty and Revolution in Regency London by Vic Gatrell
Thanks chiefly to Jane Austen, our abiding sense of Britain’s Regency era (1811–1820) is comforting and mildly comic—a place and a time of squires and spires, quadrilles and calling cards, light romance and heavy repartee. Gatrell’s remarkable book offers a profoundly different and deeply unsettling picture of a savagely hierarchical society ruled by a patrician state at war with the common people. Some of those people were on the verge of starva…
Managing Mobility: The British Imperial State and Global Migration, 1840–1860
Between 1840 and 1860 the British Empire expanded rapidly in scale, with rampant annexation of territory and ruthless suppression of rebellion. These decades also witnessed an unprecedented movement of people across the Empire and around the world, with over 2.6 million emigrants leaving Britain in the 1850s alone. Managing Mobility examines how the British imperial state facilitated the mass migration of its impoverished subjects as labor assets…
Henry J. Miller. A Nation of Petitioners: Petitions and Petitioning in the United Kingdom, 1780–1918
Secular Foundations of the Liberal State in Victorian Britain
The Overseer State: Slavery, Indenture and Governance in the British Empire, 1812–1916 , by Sascha Auerbach
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