Macaulay And The Enlightenment

Author : Nathaniel Wolloch
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783277254
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Macaulay and the Enlightenment written by Nathaniel Wolloch and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new intellectual biography of Thomas Babington Macaulay, showing how nineteenth-century British liberal culture retained and transformed the ideas of the Enlightenment in a rapidly changing world.

Author : Karen Green
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000066118
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catharine Macaulay's Republican Enlightenment written by Karen Green and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ‘celebrated’ Catharine Macaulay was both lauded and execrated during the eighteenth century for her republican politics and her unconventional, second marriage. This comprehensive biography in the 'life and letters' tradition situates her works in their political and social contexts and offers an unprecedented, detailed account of the content and influence of her writing, the arguments she developed in her eight-volume history of England and her other political, ethical, and educational works. Her disagreements with conservative opponents, David Hume, Edmund Burke, and Samuel Johnson are developed in detail, as is her influence on more progressive admirers such as Thomas Jefferson, Jacques-Pierre Brissot, Mercy Otis Warren, and Mary Wollstonecraft. Macaulay emerges as a coherent and influential political voice, whose attitudes and aspirations were characteristic of those enlightenment republicans who grounded their progressive politics in rational religion. She looked back to the seventeenth-century levellers and parliamentarians as important precursors who had advocated the liberty and political rights she aspired to see implemented in Great Britain, America, and France. Her defence of republican liberty and the equal rights of men offers an important corrective to some contemporary accounts of the character and origins of democratic republicanism during this crucial period.

Author : Catherine Hall
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300189184
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Macaulay and Son written by Catherine Hall and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-14 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Karen Green
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190934484
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Correspondence of Catharine Macaulay written by Karen Green and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catharine Macaulay was a celebrated republican historian, whose account of the reasons for the seventeenth-century English Revolution, the parliamentary period, and its aftermath was widely read by the mothers and fathers of American Independence and by central players in the French Revolution. As well as publishing her eight volume history, spanning the period from the accession of James I to the Glorious Revolution of 1688, she wrote political pamphlets, offered a sketch of a republican constitution for Corsica, advocated parliamentary reform, and published a response to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France. Her Letters on Education of 1790 made a decisive impact on the thought of Mary Wollstonecraft, and her Treatise on the Immutability of Moral Truth opposed the skeptical and utilitarian attitudes being developed by Hume and others. This volume brings together for the first time all the available letters between her and her wide-ranging correspondents, who include George Washington, John Adams, Abigail Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, James Otis, Benjamin Rush, David Hume, James Boswell, Thomas Hollis, John Wilkes, Horace Walpole, Mary Wollstonecraft, Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville, and many other luminaries of the eighteenth-century enlightenment. It includes an extended introduction to her life and works and offers a unique insight into the thinking of her friends and correspondents during the period between 1760 and 1790, the crucible for the development of modern representative democracies. The Correspondence of Catharine Macaulay will appeal to scholars of philosophy, political thought, women's studies, and eighteenth-century history, as well as those interested in the development of democratic ideas.

Author : Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Works of Thomas Babington Macaulay: Critical and historical essays written by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hugh Trevor-Roper
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300139349
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History and the Enlightenment written by Hugh Trevor-Roper and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-29 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historical philosophy of the Enlightenment -- The Scottish Enlightenment -- Pietro Giannone and Great Britain -- Dimitrie Cantemir's Ottoman history and its reception in England -- From deism to history: Conyers Middleton -- David Hume, historian -- The idea of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire -- Gibbon and the publication of the Decline and fall of the Roman Empire 1776-1976 -- Gibbon's last project -- The romantic movement and the study of history -- Lord Macaulay: the history of England -- Thomas Carlyle's historical philosophy -- Jacob Burckhardt.

Author : Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Writings of Thomas Babington Macaulay written by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : B. Taylor
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230554806
Total Pages : 769 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women, Gender and Enlightenment written by B. Taylor and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-05-27 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did women have an Enlightenment? This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the controversial, innovative role played by women and gender issues in the age of light.

Author : Thomas Babington Macaulay
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1605209724
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of England from the Accession of James II written by Thomas Babington Macaulay and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Editor name not noted above: Lady Trevelyan. Perhaps the most famous example of the "Whig interpretation of history"-the idea that the human story has been inevitably destined for enlightenment, progress, and scientific truth-this five-volume work instantly revolutionized the British understanding of history when its first volume was published in 1848. Though not without its detractors-Karl Marx called author BARON THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY (1800-1859), an English politician and historian, "a systematic falsifier of history"-it nevertheless became a standard text, and one that is today required reading for anyone who wishes to explore changing values and ideals in historical scholarship. Volume V opens with acts of mutiny and the controversy over standing armies and continues through the death of William of Orange in 1702. It also features the complete index for all five volumes.

Author : Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Works of Thomas Babington Macaulay written by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: