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'Re-imagining Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1780-1870' examines the ways in which the ancient concept of 'democracy' was re-imagined as relevant to the modern world in Latin America and the Caribbean between the late eighteenth and late nineteenth centuries.

The East Asian Journal of British History is produced by the East Asian Society of British History, and supported by the Institute for Historical Research. The Institute of Historical Research is pleased and proud to be supporting this recent addition to British history scholarship. Developing out of the IHR's long-standing collaborative partnership with Japanese universities, and now in its fourth year, the East Asian Journal of British History features some of the best emergent scholarship from Anglophone historians working in China, Japan, and South Korea. Divided between an articles section and one devoted to reviews, the journal's remit wide-ranging covering all fields and periods of British history. It complements the triennial Anglo-Japanese Conference organised by the IHR and Japanese historians based at the universities of Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka, and the conference of the East Asian Society of British history, in which we are joined by our colleagues from South Korea. In future, we hope that more contributions will be featured in the journal from the Chinese mainland and from Taiwan.

The issues around settlement, belonging, and poor relief have for too long been understood largely from the perspective of England and Wales. This volume offers a pan-European survey that encompasses Switzerland, Prussia, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Britain. It explores how the conception of belonging changed over time and space from the 1500s onwards, how communities dealt with the welfare expectations of an increasingly mobile population that migrated both within and between states, the welfare rights that were attached to those who "belonged," and how ordinary people secured access to welfare resources. What emerged was a sophisticated European settlement system, which on the one hand structured itself to limit the claims of the poor, and yet on the other was peculiarly sensitive to their demands and negotiations

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- H. T. Dickinson: An Appreciation -- Introduction -- Part I. Parliament and Political Cultures -- 1. 'The Press Ought to be Open to All': From the Liberty of Conscience to the Liberty of the Press -- 2. 'Could the Scots Become True British?' The Prelude to the Scottish Peerage Bill, 1706-16 -- 3. Parliament and Church Reform: Off and On the Agenda -- 4. Liberty, Property and the Post-Culloden Acts of Parliament in the Gàidhealtachd -- 5. Political Toasting in the Age of Revolutions: Britain, America and France, 1765-1800 -- Part II. Beyond Liberty and Property -- 6. Edmund Burke, Dissent and Church and State -- 7. 'The Wisest and Most Benefi cial Schemes': William Ogilvie, Radical Political Economy and the Scottish Enlightenment -- 8. Thomas Spence and James Harrington: A Case Study in Influence -- 9. Thomas Spence, Children's Literature and 'Learning . . . Debauched by Ambition' -- Part III. The Long and Wide 1790s -- 10. British Radical Attitudes towards the United States of America in the 1790s: The Case of William Winterbotham -- 11. Was there a Law of Sedition in Scotland? Baron David Hume's Analysis of the Scottish Sedition Trials of 1794 -- 12. The Vilifi cation of Thomas Paine: Constructing a Folk Devil in the 1790s -- 13. Nelson's Circles: Networking in the Navy during the French Wars -- 14. The Posthumous Lives of Thomas Muir -- Appendix: Selected List of H. T. Dickinson's Publications, 1964-2015 -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index

As one of the most influential ideas in modern European history, democracy has fundamentally reshaped not only the landscape of governance, but also social and political thought throughout the world. Democracy in Modern Europe surveys the conceptual history of democracy in modern Europe, from the Industrial Revolutions of the nineteenth century through both world wars and the rise of welfare states to the present era of the European Union. Exploring individual countries as well as regional dynamics, this volume comprises a tightly organized, comprehensive, and thoroughly up-to-date exploration of a foundational issue in European political and intellectual history