UID:
edocfu_9960117710402883
Format:
1 online resource (iv, 504 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-107-37521-5
Series Statement:
Cambridge library collection. British & Irish history, 17th & 18th centuries
Content:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Sep 2016).
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Part IV. Charles II (cont.): 1. Campaign of 1674; 2. Popish plot; 3. Duke of York leaves the kingdom; 4. Several of the nobility petition for a parliament; 5. Policy of Lewis; 6. Plan of arbitrary power concerted between the king and the duke; 7. Project of an insurrection; Advertisement.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-108-06762-X
Language:
English
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