Author: Catherine Hall
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300189184
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Thomas Babington Macaulay's History of England was a phenomenal Victorian best-seller which shaped much more than the literary culture of the times: it defined a nation's sense of self, charting the rise of the British Isles to its triumph as a homogenous nation, a safeguard of the freedom of belief and expression, and a central world power. In this book Catherine Hall explores the emotional, intellectual, and political roots of Thomas Macaulay's vision of England, tracing the influence of his father's career as a colonial governor and drawing illuminating comparisons between the two men.
Macaulay and Son
Author: Catherine Hall
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300189184
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Thomas Babington Macaulay's History of England was a phenomenal Victorian best-seller which shaped much more than the literary culture of the times: it defined a nation's sense of self, charting the rise of the British Isles to its triumph as a homogenous nation, a safeguard of the freedom of belief and expression, and a central world power. In this book Catherine Hall explores the emotional, intellectual, and political roots of Thomas Macaulay's vision of England, tracing the influence of his father's career as a colonial governor and drawing illuminating comparisons between the two men.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300189184
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Thomas Babington Macaulay's History of England was a phenomenal Victorian best-seller which shaped much more than the literary culture of the times: it defined a nation's sense of self, charting the rise of the British Isles to its triumph as a homogenous nation, a safeguard of the freedom of belief and expression, and a central world power. In this book Catherine Hall explores the emotional, intellectual, and political roots of Thomas Macaulay's vision of England, tracing the influence of his father's career as a colonial governor and drawing illuminating comparisons between the two men.
The History of England from the Accession of James the Second
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Commentary on Macaulay's History of England
Author: Sir Charles Harding Firth
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136241825
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
First published in 1964. Before the great war Sir Charles Firth used to give from time to time a course of lectures on Macaulay's History of England. When he undertook the preparation of an illustrated edition of that work, published 1913-15 in six volumes he began to revise his lectures in order to compile from them a commentary on the History. Unfortunately the task of revision was interrupted during the war and never resumed except to publish two articles, on Macaulay's Third Chapter1 and Macaulay's Treatment of Scottish History,2 which form chapters vi and viii of this book. Collated in this volume are these works and also commentary whose object is not merely to criticise the statements made by Macaulay and the point of view adopted by him, but also to show the extent to which his conclusions had been invalidated or confirmed by later writers who had devoted their attention to particular parts of his subject, or by the new documentary materials published during the last sixty years.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136241825
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
First published in 1964. Before the great war Sir Charles Firth used to give from time to time a course of lectures on Macaulay's History of England. When he undertook the preparation of an illustrated edition of that work, published 1913-15 in six volumes he began to revise his lectures in order to compile from them a commentary on the History. Unfortunately the task of revision was interrupted during the war and never resumed except to publish two articles, on Macaulay's Third Chapter1 and Macaulay's Treatment of Scottish History,2 which form chapters vi and viii of this book. Collated in this volume are these works and also commentary whose object is not merely to criticise the statements made by Macaulay and the point of view adopted by him, but also to show the extent to which his conclusions had been invalidated or confirmed by later writers who had devoted their attention to particular parts of his subject, or by the new documentary materials published during the last sixty years.
Macaulay's History of England from the Accession of James II
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Macaulay: the Shaping of the Historian
Author: John Leonard Clive
Publisher: New York : Knopf
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Determined to be his own man, he had no sooner achieved financial and political security--in a lucrative post on the Governor-General's Council in India--than the relationship with his beloved sisters so necessary to his emotional security was destroyed. Here is the public Macaulay: cocksure and impetuous, a parvenu lacking the specific gravity of a statesman, and yet speaking out not only for freedom as an abstraction, but concretely for the rights of Jews, Roman Catholics and blacks; envisioning a potential beauty and splendor in industrialization; almost singlehandedly writing a penal code for India; becoming embroiled in the crucial controversy over Indian education (what should be taught and in what language); and forever leaving his mark on Anglo-Indian cultural relations--just as India left its mark on him.
Publisher: New York : Knopf
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Determined to be his own man, he had no sooner achieved financial and political security--in a lucrative post on the Governor-General's Council in India--than the relationship with his beloved sisters so necessary to his emotional security was destroyed. Here is the public Macaulay: cocksure and impetuous, a parvenu lacking the specific gravity of a statesman, and yet speaking out not only for freedom as an abstraction, but concretely for the rights of Jews, Roman Catholics and blacks; envisioning a potential beauty and splendor in industrialization; almost singlehandedly writing a penal code for India; becoming embroiled in the crucial controversy over Indian education (what should be taught and in what language); and forever leaving his mark on Anglo-Indian cultural relations--just as India left its mark on him.
Lord Macaulay's History of England
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441133747
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
History.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441133747
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
History.
At Home with the Empire
Author: Catherine Hall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139460099
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
This pioneering 2006 volume addresses the question of how Britain's empire was lived through everyday practices - in church and chapel, by readers at home, as embodied in sexualities or forms of citizenship, as narrated in histories - from the eighteenth century to the present. Leading historians explore the imperial experience and legacy for those located, physically or imaginatively, 'at home,' from the impact of empire on constructions of womanhood, masculinity and class to its influence in shaping literature, sexuality, visual culture, consumption and history-writing. They assess how people thought imperially, not in the sense of political affiliations for or against empire, but simply assuming it was there, part of the given world that had made them who they were. They also show how empire became a contentious focus of attention at certain moments and in particular ways. This will be essential reading for scholars and students of modern Britain and its empire.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139460099
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
This pioneering 2006 volume addresses the question of how Britain's empire was lived through everyday practices - in church and chapel, by readers at home, as embodied in sexualities or forms of citizenship, as narrated in histories - from the eighteenth century to the present. Leading historians explore the imperial experience and legacy for those located, physically or imaginatively, 'at home,' from the impact of empire on constructions of womanhood, masculinity and class to its influence in shaping literature, sexuality, visual culture, consumption and history-writing. They assess how people thought imperially, not in the sense of political affiliations for or against empire, but simply assuming it was there, part of the given world that had made them who they were. They also show how empire became a contentious focus of attention at certain moments and in particular ways. This will be essential reading for scholars and students of modern Britain and its empire.
The History of England from the Accession of James II.
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
The Thirty Years War
Author: C. V. Wedgwood
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681371235
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Europe in 1618 was riven between Protestants and Catholics, Bourbon and Hapsburg--as well as empires, kingdoms, and countless principalities. After angry Protestants tossed three representatives of the Holy Roman Empire out the window of the royal castle in Prague, world war spread from Bohemia with relentless abandon, drawing powers from Spain to Sweden into a nightmarish world of famine, disease, and seemingly unstoppable destruction.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681371235
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Europe in 1618 was riven between Protestants and Catholics, Bourbon and Hapsburg--as well as empires, kingdoms, and countless principalities. After angry Protestants tossed three representatives of the Holy Roman Empire out the window of the royal castle in Prague, world war spread from Bohemia with relentless abandon, drawing powers from Spain to Sweden into a nightmarish world of famine, disease, and seemingly unstoppable destruction.
Macaulay's History of England from the Accession of James II
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description