The History of England from the Accession of James I to That of the Brunswick Line: Volume 1 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781108067560)

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 1 (1763) begins with the founding of the Stuart dynasty in 1603 and takes the narrative through to the reign of Charles I and the passing of the Petition of Right in 1628.

Author: Catharine Macaulay
ISBN-10: 1108067565
ISBN-13: 9781108067560
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/19/2013
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.76lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.94d