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The Political Works Of Thomas Spence
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Author : Thomas Spence
language : en
Publisher: Newcastle Upon Tyne : Avero (Eighteenth-Century) Publications
Release Date : 1982
The Political Works Of Thomas Spence written by Thomas Spence and has been published by Newcastle Upon Tyne : Avero (Eighteenth-Century) Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Political Science categories.
The Important Trial Of Thomas Spence For A Political Pamphlet Intitled The Restorer Of Society To Its Natural State Second Edition
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Author : Thomas Spence
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1803
The Important Trial Of Thomas Spence For A Political Pamphlet Intitled The Restorer Of Society To Its Natural State Second Edition written by Thomas Spence and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1803 with categories.
The Life Writings And Principles Of Thomas Spence Author Of The Spencean System Or Agrarian Equality With A Portrait Of The Author
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Author : Allen Davenport
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1836
The Life Writings And Principles Of Thomas Spence Author Of The Spencean System Or Agrarian Equality With A Portrait Of The Author written by Allen Davenport and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1836 with Land reform categories.
Trial Of Thomas Spence In 1801
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Author : Thomas Spence
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1917
Trial Of Thomas Spence In 1801 written by Thomas Spence and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1917 with Land tenure categories.
Thomas Spence
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Author : Alastair Bonnett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-09
Thomas Spence written by Alastair Bonnett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09 with History categories.
2014 marks the 200th anniversary of the death of an important and original voice in the history of radicalism: Thomas Spence. Spence described himself as 'the poor man's advocate' but he may equally be described as 'the poor man's revolutionary', for what he advocated was a dramatic over-turning of the existing social order. Spence wasn't interested in compromise, with reforms and half-freedoms. Spence's story is a rags to rags tale of defiance and ingenuity. Today Spence's name is little known but this in no way reflects his significance. In the first two decades of the nineteenth century it was synonymous with ultra-radical opinion. Thomas Spence was the subject of four contemporary biographical memoirs. Moreover, three years after his death an Act of Parliament was passed prohibiting 'All societies or clubs calling themselves Spencean or Spencean Philanthropists'. Spenceanism appears to be unique: it has a good claim to be the only political ideology to have ever been outlawed by the British Parliament. Spence's scheme for local and democratic ownership of the land found a receptive audience within sections of the labouring poor. In 1817 Thomas Malthus observed that, 'an idea has lately prevailed among the lower classes of society that the land is the people's farm, the rent of which ought to be divided equally among them'. This, in a nutshell, is 'Spence's Plan'. It sounds simple but it carried profound economic claims. It was a message spread more by way of tavern meetings, chalked graffiti and ballads than by published treatise. In 1787 Spence moved to London, setting up a bookshop on Chancery Lane. He plunged himself into the capital's turbulent radical sub-culture. He sold Thomas Paine's The Rights of Man and went to prison for doing so. But he disagreed with Paine on a number of fundamental issues. Paine had no qualms about private property in land. Spence began issuing a penny weekly, Pigs' Meat or, Lessons for the Swinish Multitude, which could hardly have been more inflammatory. Spence was taking considerable risks in a dangerous city: spies, threats and conspiracy swirled around him. Spence's wish for 'perfect freedom' often took him one step further than his peers. He accorded women equal democratic rights. For the time it was a daring idea but Spence went even further. For what about the rights of children? Spence's The Rights of Infants no doubt provoked more than a few incredulous smiles when it was published in 1796. Yet cruelty towards children was a topic Spence returned to time and again and it is fitting that today he is cited as one of the world's first champions of children's rights. He was an angry man, a revolutionary and an insurrectionist but he was anchored by humanitarian concerns and a wide-ranging, omnivorous, interest in the betterment of his fellows. In this book we hope to go some way in retrieving Spence, of bringing him before a new generation. This book contains works by Spence, including Property in Land Every One's Right, which has not been in print since it first appeared over 230 years ago, and contributions from Alastair Bonnett, Malcolm Chase, Gregory Claeys, Rachel Hammersley, Jon Mee, John Marangos, Robert W. Rix, Joan C. Beal, Michael T. Davis, and Keith Armstrong.
The Political Thought Of Thomas Spence
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Author : Matilde Cazzola
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-11-18
The Political Thought Of Thomas Spence written by Matilde Cazzola and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-18 with History categories.
The book is an intellectual analysis of the political ideas of English radical thinker Thomas Spence (1750–1814), who was renowned for his "Plan", a proposal for the abolition of private landownership and the replacement of state institutions with a decentralized parochial organization. This system would be realized by means of the revolution of the "swinish multitude", the poor labouring class despised by Edmund Burke and adopted by Spence as his privileged political interlocutor. While he has long been considered an eccentric and anachronistic figure, the book sets out to demonstrate that Spence was a deeply original, thoroughly modern thinker, who translated his themes into a popular language addressing the multitude and publicized his Plan through chapbooks, tokens, and songs. The book is therefore a history of Spence's political thought "from below", designed to decode the subtle complexity of his Plan. It also shows that the Plan featured an excoriating critique of colonialism and slavery as well as a project of global emancipation. By virtue of its transnational scope, the Plan made landfall in the British West Indies a few years after Spence's death. Indeed, Spencean ideas were intellectually implicated in the largest slave revolt in the history of Barbados.
The Case Of T Spence Who Was Committed To Prison For Selling Paine S Rights Of Man To Which Is Added An Extract Of A Letter From The Duke Of Richmond Etc
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Author : Thomas Spence
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1792
The Case Of T Spence Who Was Committed To Prison For Selling Paine S Rights Of Man To Which Is Added An Extract Of A Letter From The Duke Of Richmond Etc written by Thomas Spence and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1792 with categories.
Thomas Spence And His Connections
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Author : Olive Durant Rudkin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
Thomas Spence And His Connections written by Olive Durant Rudkin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Socialism categories.
The Life And Times Of Thomas Spence
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Author : P Mary Ashraf
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
The Life And Times Of Thomas Spence written by P Mary Ashraf and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Pigs Meat
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Author : Thomas Spence
language : en
Publisher: Spokesman Books
Release Date : 1982
Pigs Meat written by Thomas Spence and has been published by Spokesman Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Fiction categories.