The History of England from the Accession of James I to that of the Brunswick L…
The History of England from the Accession of James I to that of the Brunswick Line: Volume 5, From the Death of Charles I to the Restoration of Charles IIAuthor(s): Catharine Macaulay\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108067607, 978-1108067607\nSynopsis\nA 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 [tel] 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 thr.
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