By tracing mentions of the English radical thinker Thomas Spence (1750–1814), his revolutionary “Plan”, and his disciples (the “Spencean Philanthropists”) in digitized collections of English-language Irish, Caribbean, Indian, Australian, Canadian, and US-American newspapers in the 1790s–1840s, this article explores the dissemination of the ideas and militancy inspired by Spence (“Spenceanism”) across the British Empire and the United States. By applying Digital Humanities methods to investigate British radical history from a transnational perspective, the global reception of Spenceanism is reconstructed by examining and comparing a corpus of 275 newspaper articles through text-mining methods such as keyword analysis, co-occurrences, and sentiment analysis. These methods enable the identification of key themes in references to Spenceanism and advance hypotheses concerning both their geographical and chronological distribution: not only when and where Spence and the Spenceans were alluded to and commented upon, but also how a newspaper's geographical location may have impacted its rhetoric in a specific year and historical context. By combining quantitative and qualitative analysis, this article contributes new insights regarding the global circulation of radical ideas across the nineteenth-century English-reading world.

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斯宾塞主义的跨国回响：英文报纸的文本挖掘探索（1790-1850）

通过追踪英国激进思想家托马斯·斯宾塞（Thomas Spence，1750-1814）、他的革命性“计划”和他的弟子（“斯宾塞慈善家”）在爱尔兰语、加勒比语、印度语、澳大利亚语、加拿大语和英语的数字化馆藏中的提及，本文探讨了 1790 年代至 1840 年代的美国报纸，探讨了受斯宾塞（“斯宾塞主义”）启发的思想和战斗精神在大英帝国和美国的传播。通过应用数字人文方法从跨国角度研究英国激进历史，通过关键词分析、共现和情感分析等文本挖掘方法检查和比较 275 篇报纸文章的语料库，重建斯宾塞主义的全球接受情况。这些方法能够识别斯宾塞主义中的关键主题，并提出有关其地理和时间顺序分布的假设：不仅是何时何地提到和评论斯宾塞和斯宾塞人，还包括报纸的地理位置如何影响其新闻报道。特定年份和历史背景下的言论。通过结合定量和定性分析，本文对十九世纪英语阅读世界中激进思想的全球传播提供了新的见解。