Paul Tonks

Abstract This article restores an important figure to the study of eighteenth‐century British political and economic thought. A prominent Scottish financial administrator and author resident in Hanoverian London, Adam Anderson (1692–1765) evaluated the expansion of the British commercial empire in the eighteenth century. Anderson developed a sophisticated set of historical arguments about early modern British governance and its relationship to economic growth and societal development. Anderson f

This article seeks to interrogate and reframe important historiographical facets of the increasingly prominent field of Atlantic History. Specifically, it questions the historiographical treatment of alleged shared perspectives in Scottish and colonial American thought about the governance of the eighteenth-century British Empire. A very influential view of the evolution of the early modern British Atlantic Empire focuses on growing tensions between provincial and metropolitan understanding s of

South Asian leaders shaped the Commonwealth’s reorientation from an association grounded in British-derived ideals of representative government to an international organisation that expressed multiracial solidarity in the face of ideological fragmentation. This article fills a crucial historiographical gap by explaining how ideas motivated the new Asian members of the expanded and transformed Commonwealth. Balanced historical interpretation must give weight to both ideas and practice. Few schola

Abstract This article examines how public education began to be seen as crucial to addressing the management of poverty in late eighteenth‐ and early nineteenth‐century Britain. Public education was central to the shaping of eighteenth‐century Scottish socio‐economic development and the concerns of the Scottish enlightenment intellectual project. In the generation after Adam Smith, scholars and administrators were confronted with the enormous challenges of burgeoning poverty created by urban gro

The Commonwealth Prime Ministers’ (subsequently Heads of Government) Meetings or Conferences were the flagship events of the New Commonwealth in the two decades after the Second World War and the beginning of formal independence and decolonisation in South Asia. The post-war Commonwealth leadership sought to maintain unity on key international issues, which served British strategic interests, at least in the view of British leaders, officials, and influential commentators. The collision of inter

Cardinal John Henry Newman’s Idea of a University remains a truly pro- found and inspirational text that resonates down from its first publication in the Nineteenth Century to the present day. It should be acknowledged as one of the greatest treatments of this crucial subject: the nature and purpose of Higher Education. Our modest aim is to articulate a brief argument that draws out Newman’s extraordinarily valuable legacy for us as modern uni- versity educators in the Christian tradition here i

Now the world’s most populous state, India has traditionally been referred to as the largest democracy on earth and its next nationwide elections will take place in the spring of 2024. Weeks before...

This essay seeks to broaden our understanding of the Civil Wars and Restoration era in the British Isles by close attention to the ideology of Samuel Rutherford (c. 1600-1661), the most important radical political theologian of the Scottish Presbyterian Covenanters and a major figure in Anglo-Scottish relations during this period, particularly due to his role as a Commissioner from the Scottish Kirk to the Westminster Assembly of Divines. Rutherford’s influence and impact on the seventeenth-cent

본 논문은 18세기 스코틀랜드의 장로교 목사이자 작가였던 로버트 밀러(1672-1752)의 저작들을 분석한다. 밀러 저작들의 구독자 명단을 세밀하게 분석함으로써 학술적으로 기여하고자 한다. 본 논문은 우선 밀러의 가장 중요한 지적 업적인 『기독교 전파의 역사』(1723년에 에든버러에서 출판) 초판 구독자들의 경제, 사회, 지리적인 배경을 조사한 후, 1789년에 페이즐리에서 발간된 『로버트 밀러 목사의 작품집』의 구독자들과 비교한다. 이를 통해 잉글랜드와 스코틀랜드가 통합된 1707년과 프랑스 혁명 사이의 기간에 발생한 종교와 사회경제적 변화 사이의 관계를 분석한다. 스코틀랜드의 도시인 페이즐리는 당시 영국의 산업화와 도시화가 불러온 심대한 사회경제적 변화를 보여주는 좋은 예이다. 밀러는 18세기 스코틀랜드의 장로교를 위한 글로벌 비전을 명확하게 제시했다. 따라서 밀러와 그의 독자들은 지방(페이즐리)을 국가(스코틀랜드 장로교 교회)와 글로벌(서양의 기독교를 아시아, 아프리카 그리고

In this ground-breaking study of Britain’s historical relations with South Asia, Prof. Datta has recovered the voices of a previously marginalised group of women. As she argues, “India’s travelling...

This hugely impressive study of the thought of the central ideologue of Hindutva, the foundational framework of contemporary Hindu nationalism and divisive communalism, deserves to be immediately a...

This volume is a very valuable addition to Bloomsbury’s innovative and wide ranging ‘Critical Perspectives in South Asian History’ series. Prathama Banerjee is a professor at the renowned Centre fo...

Nile Green has written a superb book that will undoubtedly be of the greatest interest to all readers of Asian Affairs. This is a work of intellectual and cultural history at its very best. The sca...

본 논문은 2014년의 스코틀랜드 독립 국민투표와 2016년 영국의 유럽연합 잔류-탈퇴 국민투표 간의 다층적인 관계를 탐구한다. 이를 위해 필자는 영국 연합왕국과 유럽연합 각각에 대한 스코틀랜드인들의 태도의 역사적 진화가 향후 영국의 명운에 미칠 함의를 고려한다. 잉글랜드와 스코틀랜드의 정치적 지향과 문화는 분명한 분화를 보였고, 이는 2015년의 영국 총선에서 더없이 크게 나타났다. 영국 연합왕국 내에서 스코틀랜드의 불명확한 헌정적 지위는 2014년 스코틀랜드 독립 국민투표의 부결로 인해 해소되기는커녕, 다가오는 유럽연합 국민투표에 의해 더욱 혼란스러워졌음이 드러났다. 이 사실은 스코틀랜드가 잉글랜드에 비해 훨씬 덜 유럽회의주의적이라는 점에서 유추할 수 있다. 이러한 차이를 설명하기 위해 필자는 (1980년대부터 점차 되살아나기 시작한) 스코틀랜드와 유럽 간의 깊은 역사적 관계를 살펴본다. 또한 1975년의 유럽연합 국민투표와 2016년의 국민투표 논쟁 간의 역사적 연속성과 변화를