Faithful Victorian

William Thomas Thornton, 1813-1880
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-59086-2
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 5005 g

This book weaves William Thomas Thornton’s life story into the larger themes of his diverse writings whose purpose was to expose ambiguities and contradictions in politics, economics, metaphysics and religion. Thornton was a poet, an intrepid traveler, a biographer, an essayist, an imperial mandarin, and a dutiful family man. Thornton joined the East India Company in the mid-1830s, rising to become Secretary of the India Office’s Department of Public Works. This study uses Thornton’s letters and other recently-discovered primary material to provide a fascinating account that returns his compelling life to the center of nineteenth-century British intellectual thought.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Donoghue, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geschichte der VWL

Inhaltsverzeichnis

.One Beginnings.-

.Two “Your Plea will not be in Vain”.-

.Three “The Best, Truest, Noblest of Friends”.-

.Four Rhymes and Verses.-

.Five An Awkward Equilibrium.-

.Six Servant of the Raj.-

.Seven Burning Words.-

.Eight Final Works.-

.Epilogue.

Über Autor(innen)

Mark Donoghue has held faculty appointments at the Australian National University, National University of Singapore and the University of Notre Dame, Australia. He is currently on the faculty of SIM University, Singapore. He has published extensively in the field of the history of economic thought.