Stephen Conway
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3765889 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Stephen Conway |
| PRENOMES | Stephen |
| SOBRENOME | Conway |
| ASSINATURA | CONWAY S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University College London |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 78 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 66 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 61 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 18 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1984 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Global Warfare
The American war, as the War of American Independence was known in Britain, was a highly misleading description; it was much more than just a bilateral struggle between Britain and the rebel colonies that became the United States. Though the conflict began in North America, from when the French intervened in 1778 to support the new states, the war spread to the West Indies, West Africa, South Asia, and the waters off the British Isles. When the S…
The American Revolution and the Habsburg Monarchy
Journal Article The American Revolution and the Habsburg Monarchy Get access The American Revolution and the Habsburg Monarchy. By Jonathan Singerton. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2022. xxii, 366 pp. Cloth, $75.00. Paper, $35.00.) Stephen Conway Stephen Conway University College London, London, England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 110, Issue 4, Marc…
The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
Volume I offers an introduction to the Enlightenment, which served as the shared background for virtually all revolutionary turmoil, and the American Revolution, which inaugurated the Age of Revolutions. Beginning with a thorough introduction, the volume covers international rivalry, the importance of slavery, and the reformist mind-set that prevailed on the eve of the revolutionary era. It addresses the traditional argument on whether the Enligh…
John Gilbert McCurdy, Quarters
Revisiting the Polite and Commercial People
Revisiting the Polite and Commercial People: Essays in Georgian Politics, Society, and Culture in Honour of Professor Paul Langford, ed. Elaine Chalus and Perry Gauci Revisiting the Polite and Commercial People: Essays in Georgian Politics, Society, and Culture in Honour of Professor Paul Langford, ed. Elaine Chalus and Perry Gauci (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2019; pp. xviii + 270. £60). Stephen Conway Stephen Conway University College London s.conway@…
Disciplining the Empire
Disciplining the Empire: Politics, Governance, and the Rise of the British Navy, by Sarah Kinkel Disciplining the Empire: Politics, Governance, and the Rise of the British Navy, by Sarah Kinkel (Cambridge, MA: Harvard U.P., 2018; pp. 304. £36.95). Stephen Conway Stephen Conway University College London [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 135, Issue 575, …
Victoria Henshaw, Scotland and the British Army, 1700–1750
Britannia's Auxiliaries
This book provides the first wide-ranging attempt to consider the continental European contribution to the eighteenth-century British Empire. The British benefited from many different European inputs—financial, material, and, perhaps most importantly, human. Continental Europeans appeared in different British imperial sites as soldiers, settlers, scientists, sailors, clergymen, merchants, and technical experts. They also sustained the empire from…
Inside the Empire
This chapter explores the different ways in which continental Europeans worked within the British Empire between about 1740 and 1800. It draws on a wide range of sources to piece together the picture, from official records to private letters, diaries, wills, inventories, and account-books. Foreign Europeans made an appearance in the empire in a variety of guises—as cartographers, scientists, technical experts, clergymen, merchants, sailors, and, …
Networks
This chapter turns to the role of private actors in facilitating the various forms of European engagement with the British Empire. Long-distance and transnational networks undoubtedly played a key role, sometimes underpinning types of continental European involvement of which ministers and officials in London, and state servants in imperial sites, disapproved, and wished to discourage or even stop. But private actors did not always work to underm…
Conclusions
In the concluding chapter, the argument of the book is summarized and some reflections are offered on what might have distinguished British imperial experience from that of the other European imperial powers. The study has shown that despite fierce competition with other Europeans for the spoils of the wider world, this competition existed alongside their involvement in Britain’s empire and that life in the British Empire changed those Europeans …
Government
This chapter examines the ways in which, and the reasons why, British governments sought to facilitate what they regarded as benign forms of European penetration of the empire. Ministers successfully piloted through Parliament legislation designed to encourage foreign sailors to serve on British merchant ships in wartime. British governments, the Westminster Parliament, and colonial governors and their assemblies offered a range of incentives to …
Outside the Empire
This chapter considers the part played by continental Europeans in sustaining the empire from without, a role that was less conspicuous than internal involvement but nevertheless helped to support British imperial activity. Here we consider other Europeans as investors; as consumers of British imperial products; as suppliers of goods to British imperial sites; and as facilitators of the British presence across the globe, who from outside the empi…
British Empire
This chapter pursues further the theme of British direction. It argues that, despite the involvement of other Europeans, the empire remained essentially British. After having considered the case for Europeanization, it goes on to show that many of those foreigners who became involved in or with the empire were at least partially Anglicized by the experience. Large numbers of foreign settlers, scientists, and technical experts learned English for …
Citizen Soldiers and the Key to the Bastille , by Julia Osman
Julia Osman’s study of the French army from the Seven Years War to the first campaigns of the French Revolutionary War builds upon a now considerable scholarship on the military and French society during the key period of transition from the ancien régime to the Revolution. Important books on the subject by Samuel Scott and Rafe Blaufarb point to interesting continuities between the old royal army and the revolutionary army that replaced it. Osma…
Privateering
Faye Kert has already published books on privateering and the communities of Atlantic Canada in the War of 1812; in this study she extends her coverage to consider American as well as Canadian privateering in the same conflict. With trends in history publishing determined so much nowadays by anniversaries, it comes as no surprise that the Anglo-American War of 1812–15 has attracted a great deal of scholarly interest in the last few years. A multi…
Politics and Foreign Policy in the Age of George I, 1714–1727, by Jeremy BlackBritish Politics and Foreign Policy, 1744–1757
These two volumes are part of a series of studies of British foreign policy in the eighteenth century published by Ashgate. They can be regarded as accompaniments to the same author’s Debating Foreign Policy (2011) and Politics and Foreign Policy, 1727–1744 (2014). Jeremy Black is a famously productive writer, on a wide variety of subjects, but foreign policy was his original specialism, and it remains, judging by his recent output, his abiding i…
The struggle for sea power
The struggle for sea power: a naval history of American independence." Journal for Maritime Research, 18(2), pp. 174–175
Moral Economy, Contract, and Negotiated Authority in American, British, and German Militaries, ca. 1740–1783
How do armies function?Why do large numbers of common soldiers follow the orders of small numbers of officers?These questions ought to interest more than just historians of war, for the way in which military organizations work can tell us something about processes of government in other settings.But the opposite is no less true: we can learn much about armies by looking at the societies from which they were recruited.To gain a better understandin…
Britain against Napoleon
Roger Knight, having written a rightly acclaimed biography of Nelson (The pursuit of victory: the life and achievement of Horatio Nelson, 2005), turns his attention in this substantial new study to
British Governments, Colonial Consumers, and Continental European Goods in the British Atlantic Empire, 1763–1775
This article looks at the attempts made by British governments after the Seven Years War to reduce colonial consumption of continental European manufactures. It begins by sketching the pre-war background, focusing first on the availability of European goods in North America and the Caribbean and then on British debates about foreign commodity penetration of the Atlantic colonies. The next part charts the emergence after 1763 of a political consen…
Founded in Lasting Interests’
This article examines various British proposals for co-operation with other European imperial powers to counter the rebellion of the American colonies or curb the pretentions of the new United States. Historians have paid little attention to these projects, mainly because none of them eventuated in the co-operation their authors envisaged. But their lack of success is not a reason to dismiss them as unimportant; their failure reveals much about B…
Continental European Soldiers in British Imperial Service, c .1756–1792
Continental Europeans were not just enemies and competitors of the eighteenth-century British Empire; they were also allies, auxiliaries, and coadjutors in British imperial activity. This paper examines the role of European and particularly German soldiers in the British Empire in the second half of the eighteenth century. In chronological terms, the focus is on the Seven Years War and especially on the War of American Independence. Geographicall…
Judith Thompson and Ross Thompson, Mindful Ministry
The War of 1812 in the Age of Napoleon - By Jeremy Black
Male Fantasies. Volume 1
Resisting the ‘mask’ of old age
While the substantial literature on lay health beliefs gives some consideration to older people's conceptions of health and illness, it is material which has yet to be examined from the perspective of postmodern theory. This article, therefore, critically examines the value of using ideas from postmodernism in such a context and focuses on data obtained from a series of in-depth interviews with a sample of fifteen older people. During the intervi…
Bentham on Peace and War
One of the most neglected aspects of Bentham's thought is his opposition to war. His views on this subject have been sketched out in a number of studies, but they have never been examined in any detail. Interested scholars have tended to base their assessments on a narrow range of sources. Most have relied on the four brief essays, collectively entitled ‘Principles of International Law’, which were published in John Bowring's edition of Bentham's…
The Reproduction of Exclusion and Disadvantage
Following the enhancement of parental choice through the 1988 Education Act, an increasing body of educational literature, aside from describing parent wants and the implications for internal organisation and external marketing, includes criticism of it as yet another way of privileging the middle class over the working class (eg. Halstead, 1994). This paper argues that parental choice is a social field where social relations are reproduced, rein…
Bentham versus Pitt
The successes and failures of British foreign policy from the end of the American war of independence until the outbreak of the conflict with revolutionary France will be familiar, at least in outline, to many students of late-eighteenth-century history. In 1783 Britain was widely regarded as having been reduced to the status of a second-rank power. British ministers, and especially Pitt the Younger and his first foreign secretary, the marquess o…
A Joy Unknown for Years Past’
In April 1782 Admiral Rodney won a notable victory over the French fleet at the battle of the Saints in the West Indies. The ensuing enthusiastic public celebrations can be understood only when proper account is taken not just of the war situation and the politics of the moment, but also of the ways in which the American conflict stimulated and redefined a popular sense of Britishness
The British Isles and the War of American Independence
Stephen Conway, who has written extensively on the American Revolution, now turns his attention to the impact of the American conflict on Britain itself. His volume complements nicely Piers Mackesy's magisterial The Wa r for America, 1775–1783 (1964), which focuses on Britain's warmaking machinery in London and on how the ministry and the commanders in America used those instruments at home and applied them to the contest for the colonies. In con…
Locality, Metropolis and Nation
The military camps established in England during the War of American Independence have been examined by historians as manifestations of anxiety about invasion, or as centres of intensive training, but no attempt has been made to consider them more fully. This article looks at the impact of the camps—economically, socially and culturally – on their immediate host localities, on London and on the nation as a whole. It is argued that, particularly i…
Continental Connections
The topic of empire has loomed large in recent writings on eighteenth‐century Britain. This article attempts to encourage greater appreciation of Britain's multifarious connections with continental Europe in this period. It also seeks to establish that empire and Europe were seen by many Britons as complementary rather than competing areas of interest and engagement
Governing the Unhealthy Community
War, Imperial Expansion and Religious Developments in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland
This article offers a fresh look at the relationship between war, imperial expansion (itself a consequence of war) and religious developments in Britain and Ireland in the middle decades of the eighteenth century. While conflict between Britain and the Catholic Bourbon powers between 1739 and 1763 heightened popular hostility to ‘popery’ among Protestants, war and the expansion of empire helped to change elite attitudes towards Catholicism. Catho…
Ageing and Imagined Community
This paper develops Anderson's (1983) concept of 'imagined community' to explore the social meaning of popular images of ageing and the beliefs of older people. Popular iconography and texts are examined in relation to the representation of 'normal' or 'positive' ageing in areas including the marketing of seaside towns as places for retirement through the emphasis upon heritage, British holiday brochures for old people, lifestyle magazines, and t…
Britain and the Impact of the American War, 1775-1783
To Subdue America
I N an important sense, the American Revolutionary War was markedly different from the wars fought in Europe earlier in the eighteenth century. In those conflicts monarchs, statesmen, and generals saw their armies as the protagonists and their peoples as playing only a secondary role. Although civilians were obliged contribute materially by providing money and other vital supplies, their attitudes seldom counted for much in the reckonings of the …
British Army Officers and the American War for Independence
L URKING in the background of Revolutionary war history is the nagging impression that many British army officers sympathized with the patriot cause and were therefore unwilling to participate in the conflict. No one has made very much of this, let alone claimed that it materially affected the outcome of the struggle. Nevertheless, the record should be set straight. The time has come to extinguish any flickering suspicions that a substantial port…
British Army Officers and the American War for Independence
L URKING in the background of Revolutionary war history is the nagging impression that many British army officers sympathized with the patriot cause and were therefore unwilling to participate in the conflict. No one has made very much of this, let alone claimed that it materially affected the outcome of the struggle. Nevertheless, the record should be set straight. The time has come to extinguish any flickering suspicions that a substantial port…
The Recruitment of Criminals into the British Army, 1775-81
To Subdue America
I N an important sense, the American Revolutionary War was markedly different from the wars fought in Europe earlier in the eighteenth century. In those conflicts monarchs, statesmen, and generals saw their armies as the protagonists and their peoples as playing only a secondary role. Although civilians were obliged contribute materially by providing money and other vital supplies, their attitudes seldom counted for much in the reckonings of the …
Bentham versus Pitt
The successes and failures of British foreign policy from the end of the American war of independence until the outbreak of the conflict with revolutionary France will be familiar, at least in outline, to many students of late-eighteenth-century history. In 1783 Britain was widely regarded as having been reduced to the status of a second-rank power. British ministers, and especially Pitt the Younger and his first foreign secretary, the marquess o…
The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Vol. 8: January 1809 to December 1816
Jeremy Bentham was a British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer. He is regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism. Bentham became a leading theorist in Anglo-American philosophy of law, and a political radical whose ideas influenced the development of welfarism. He advocated individual and economic freedom, the separation of church and state, freedom of expression, equal rights for women, the right to divorce, and the decriminalising …
To Sir Samuel Bentham 19 July 1814 (Aet 66)
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To Sir Samuel Bentham 14 July 1811 (Aet 63)
Male Fantasies. Volume 1
The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Vol. 9: January 1817 to June 1820
To Sir Samuel Bentham 28 March 1820 (Aet 72)
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To Sir Samuel Bentham 20 February–2 March 1820 (Aet 72)
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To Peregrine Bingham 17 May 1820 (Aet 72)
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From Peregrine Bingham 10 August 1818
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To Bernardino Rivadavia 3–12 October 1818 (Aet 70)
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Bentham on Peace and War
One of the most neglected aspects of Bentham's thought is his opposition to war. His views on this subject have been sketched out in a number of studies, but they have never been examined in any detail. Interested scholars have tended to base their assessments on a narrow range of sources. Most have relied on the four brief essays, collectively entitled ‘Principles of International Law’, which were published in John Bowring's edition of Bentham's…
Bentham, the Benthamites, and the Nineteenth-Century British Peace Movement
The influence exerted by the ideas of Jeremy Bentham has been a matter of controversy over many years. Assessments have varied greatly—ranging from the extravagantly generous to the utterly dismissive—but there has been broad agreement on the loci for investigation. Attention has focused on the social, administrative, and legal reforms of the Victorian age. The aim here is to explore a different and relatively neglected area—the part played by Be…
The Great Mischief Complain'd of
HE great mischief Complain'd of in the prosecution of this war is that relaxation of discipline which disgraces the army and has alienated the Affections of the inhabitants from the Royal Cause. So wrote Lord George Germain, secretary of state for the American colonies, toward the close of Britain's unsuccessful attempt to put down the American rebellion.1 Many of his contemporaries, on both sides of the conflict, expressed similar sentiments abo…
John Bowring and the Nineteenth-Century Peace Movement
Journal Article John Bowring and the Nineteenth-Century Peace Movement Get access STEPHEN CONWAY STEPHEN CONWAY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Historical Research, Volume 64, Issue 155, October 1991, Pages 344–358, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1991.tb02268.x Published: 12 October 2007
The Politicization of the Nineteenth-Century Peace Society
Journal Article The Politicization of the Nineteenth-Century Peace Society Get access Stephen Conway Stephen Conway Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Historical Research, Volume 66, Issue 161, October 1993, Pages 267–283, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1993.tb01813.x Published: 12 October 2007
The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Vol. 10: July 1820 to January 1821
July 1820 to December 1821
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To Sir Samuel Bentham 13 July 1820 (Aet 72)
To Sir Samuel Bentham 24 July 1821 (Aet 73)
To the Portuguese Cortes 7 November 1821 (Aet 73)
To Sir Samuel Bentham 27 September 1820 (Aet 72)
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