The year 1688 is a turning point in English culture, and one from which can be dated
numerous distinctively 'modern'notions of truth, property and political order. The texts
assembled in this collection, originally published in 1986, focus on this intellectual
adjustment from five related perspectives: from the traditions of social thought, philosophical
thought, Anglicanism and royalism, latitudinarianism and the whig tradition, and the
dissenting/radical/quietist milieu. The texts highlight not only the views that prevailed …

The nineteenth-century American journalist Edward H. House spent much of his career
telling and retelling the story of the 1863–4 Shimonoseki incident, in which ships of four
Western nations bombarded Choshudomain, allegedly in retaliation against earlier
Choshuattacks on the Westerners, then forced Japan to pay a $3 million indemnity. House
had two goals: to get the United States to return its share of the indemnity and to correct the
standard recollection of the event, which in his view laid unjustified blame on Japan and …