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Review Of John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand, Mark Donoghue
Review Of John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand, Mark Donoghue
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John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand opens in St James Park, on a warm summer’s morning, with the teenage Mill striding to his office in Leadenhall Street in the financial heart of the City of London. Suddenly, Mill’s attention is caught by a small bundle abandoned beneath an oak tree. Curious, Mill kneels down beside it and unwraps the layers of soiled blankets only to discover a dead, newborn baby. This grisly experience remained etched in Mill’s mind for the duration of his life and was perhaps formative in shaping his views on the twin rights of life and liberty.
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Review Of J.S.Mill Revisited: Biographical And Political Explorations, Mark Donoghue
Review Of J.S.Mill Revisited: Biographical And Political Explorations, Mark Donoghue
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The commemorative John Stuart Mill bicentennial conference held at University College London in June 2006 has generated renewed interest in the life and work of this notable Victorian personality. In this latest offering, Bruce Kinzer, the veteran of several scholarly works focusing on various aspects of Mill's political thought, has presented his latest deliberations in a work that focuses on two important and overlapping subjects: the first group of chapters cover certain familiar biographical themes relating strictly to Mill's formative years while the latter half of the book dclves into various facets of Mill's political thought and activities in relation …
William Thomas Thornton’S Career At East India House: 1836–1880, Mark Donoghue
William Thomas Thornton’S Career At East India House: 1836–1880, Mark Donoghue
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Some recent work on William Thornton (1813–1880), culminating in Philip Mirowski and Steven Tradewell’s recently published Economic Writings of William Thornton (1999), seeks to cement his place in the history of nineteenth-century economics (see Donoghue 2002). But despite the notoriety Thornton achieved through his role in the wage-fund debates of the 1860s and 1870s, few commentators have explored other aspects of his work, particularly his prescient remarks on the nature of economic, political, and social reform in India.1 This absence is somewhat surprising because, for much of his professional career, Thornton served the East India Company at its …