Book contents
- Explorations in the Digital History of Ideas
- Explorations in the Digital History of Ideas
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Part I Computational Methodologies for the History of Ideas
- Part II Case Studies in the Digital History of Ideas
- 4 The Idea of Liberty, 1600–1800
- 5 The Idea of Government in the British Eighteenth Century
- 6 Republicanism in the Founding of America
- 7 Enlightenment Entanglements of Improvement and Growth
- 8 The Idea of Commercial Society: Changing Contexts and Scales
- 9 The Age of Irritability
- 10 On Bubbles and Bubbling: The Idea of ‘The South Sea Bubble’
- 11 Embedded Ideas: Revolutionary Theory and Political Science in the Eighteenth Century
- 12 Computing Koselleck: Modelling Semantic Revolutions, 1720–1960
- Index
5 - The Idea of Government in the British Eighteenth Century
from Part II - Case Studies in the Digital History of Ideas
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 November 2023
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Book contents
- Explorations in the Digital History of Ideas
- Explorations in the Digital History of Ideas
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Part I Computational Methodologies for the History of Ideas
- Part II Case Studies in the Digital History of Ideas
- 4 The Idea of Liberty, 1600–1800
- 5 The Idea of Government in the British Eighteenth Century
- 6 Republicanism in the Founding of America
- 7 Enlightenment Entanglements of Improvement and Growth
- 8 The Idea of Commercial Society: Changing Contexts and Scales
- 9 The Age of Irritability
- 10 On Bubbles and Bubbling: The Idea of ‘The South Sea Bubble’
- 11 Embedded Ideas: Revolutionary Theory and Political Science in the Eighteenth Century
- 12 Computing Koselleck: Modelling Semantic Revolutions, 1720–1960
- Index
Summary
This chapter uses digital humanities approaches to discover the computational signature of the idea of government in the British eighteenth century. Data mining techniques are applied to the large dataset Eighteenth Century Collections Online in order to ascertain the precise composition of the idea of government and to track its evolution over the entire century. The connections between government and despotism are explored in the concluding argument.
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- Explorations in the Digital History of IdeasNew Methods and Computational Approaches, pp. 98 - 121Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023