Independent Man
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The Independent Man
Author: Matthew McCormack
language: en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date: 2005
In Georgian England, independence was associated with manly virtue and physical vigour. Fundamentally, the political world was thought to consist of "independent men" exercising their consciences and standing up for the general good. As such, Georgians thought about political action and masculine virtue very differently to the ways in which we do today.