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Pole, Jack Richon was born on March 14, 1922 in London. Son of Joseph and Phoebe Louise (Rickards) Pole.
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Excerpt from the Preface: This work has been conceived and developed as a study of political representation; but representation can be understood only in the relationship it bears to the political system as a whole, and I found myself unavoidably committed to some consideration of the theory of the state. For this reason I have given rather more extended attention to the views of those seventeenth-century English Whig writers who influenced both English and American development, than might have been expected if the work had been more narrowly focused on representation alone.
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Since the Declaration of Independence, equality has been America's primary moral commitment. But equality of what? and for whom? In this completely revised second edition, the British historian J. R. Pole examines the concept of equality in American political, legal, and social thought. Applying psychological as well as historical analysis, he addresses the meaning of equality for Americans of different occupational class, ethnicity, religion, and gender. While J.R. Pole draws on many fields—religion, law, intellectual history, economics—The Pursuit of Equality in American History is best described as an account of America's moral history.
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In this volume, J.R. Pole, one of Britain's leading postwar historians and a specialist in American history, brings together his most important articles on the American past. . . The collection covers a broad spectrum of topics, extending from eighteenth-century Virginia politics to Abraham Lincoln's view of America's moral commitments and his impact on history, and again to Lincoln and the British working class.
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This book is a study in the history of political communication. Today we take it for granted that the people of a democracy have a right to know how their representatives speak and vote. But in the period of the American Revolution this development was new in both Britain and America. No assembly debates were reported in the colonial press; the constitutional convention of 1787 notoriously met in secret; even the U.S. senate kept its doors closed for its first decade. In Britain parliamentary debates were officially secret until reporting was increasingly but unofficially tolerated due to the pressure of public interest in the same period. Members of Parliament increasingly had their speeches printed for public consumption.In 1803 the Speaker set a gallery aside for the press reporters. J. R. Pole shows that similar forces worked to bring about these profound changes in the concept of political accountability in both the new American republic and the republican aspects of the British mixed monarchy.
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Pole, Jack Richon was born on March 14, 1922 in London. Son of Joseph and Phoebe Louise (Rickards) Pole.
Bachelor, Oxford (United Kingdom) University, 1949. Master of Arts, Oxford (United Kingdom) University, 1979. Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton (New Jersey) University, 1953.
Master of Arts, Cambridge (United Kingdom) University, 1963.
Lecturer American history University College London, 1953-1963. Reader in American history and government University Cambridge, 1963-1979. Rhodes professor American history and institutions University Oxford, 1979-1989.
Emeritus fellow St. Catherine's College, Oxford, since 1989. Visiting associate professor University California, Berkeley, 1960-1961. Visiting professor University Ghana, 1966, University Chicago, 1969, University Beijing, 1984.
Guest scholar Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, 1978-1979. Goleib fellow New York University Law School, 1990. Visiting professor Marshall-Wythe School Law, 1991.
Vice president International Commission for History of Republican and Parliamentary Institutions, since 1990.
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( This book is a study in the history of political commun...)
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Author: Political Representation in England and the Origins of the American Republic, 1966, second edition, 1971, The Pursuit of Equality in American History, 1978, second edition, 1993, Paths to the American Past, 1979, The Gift of Government, 1983, The American Constitution For and Against, 1987. Co-editor: Blackwell Encyclopedia of the American Revolution, 1991, A Companion to the American Revolution, review edition, 2000, Freedom of Speech: Right or Privilege?, 1998. Contributor to Encyclopedia Britannica 15th edition.
Captain British Army, 1941-1946. Fellow Royal History Society, British Academy. Member British Nineteenth Century Historians (vice president 2000), Marylebone Cricket Club.
Painting, cricket, writing.
Married Marilyn Mitchell in 1952.