The History of England from the Accession of James I to that of the Brunswick Line, Catharine Macaulay, Volume 7
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The History of England from the Accession of James I to that of the Brunswick Line, Catharine Macaulay, Volume 7
Language
eng
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The History of England from the Accession of James I to that of the Brunswick Line
Medium
electronic resource
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Oclc number
1097112110
Responsibility statement
Catharine Macaulay
Series statement
Cambridge library collection. British & Irish history, 17th & 18th centuriesCambridge Social Sciences eBooks
Summary
A landmark in female historiography, this work first appeared in eight volumes between 1763 and 1783. Notable for her radical politics and her influence on American revolutionary ideology, Catharine Macaulay (1731–91) drew diligently on untapped seventeenth-century sources to craft her skilful yet inevitably biased narrative. Seen as a Whig response to David Hume's Tory perspective on English history, the early volumes made Macaulay a literary sensation in the 1760s. Later instalments were less rapturously received by those critics who took exception to her republican views. Both the product and a portrait of tumultuous ages, the work maintains throughout a strong focus on the fortunes of political liberty. Volume 7 (1781) deals with the period following the end of the Third Anglo-Dutch War in 1674, extending to the trial and execution of Algernon Sidney in 1683.--, Provided by publisher
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