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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. Beginning with the founding of the dynasty in 1603, Macaulay paints a particularly vivid picture of Stuart tyranny under Charles I. Later volumes go on to cover the English Civil War, the Commonwealth, the Restoration and the Glorious Revolution.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: History of England from the Accession of James I to that of the Brunswick Line 8 Volume Set
• Author: Catharine Macaulay
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 3676
• EAN: 9781108067645
• ISBN: 1108067646
• ID: 02092517
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 7470 g
• Dimensions: 323 × 418 × 180 mm
• Date of publishing: 19. September 2013

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