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  3. The History of England from the Accession of James I to that of the Brunswick Line
    Volume 1
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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 October 2014
    19 September 2013
    ISBN:
    9781107375154
    9781108067560
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107375154
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    Weight & Pages:
    Dimensions:
    (254 x 178 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.8kg, 464 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Social and Population History, British History after 1450, History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - British & Irish History, 17th & 18th Centuries
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    Subjects:
    Social and Population History, British History after 1450, History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - British & Irish History, 17th & 18th Centuries
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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. 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.

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