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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 April 2012
      10 November 2011
      ISBN:
      9781139093880
      9781108036054
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139093880
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      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.52kg, 412 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Social and Population History, British History: General Interest, 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: General Interest, British History after 1450, History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - British & Irish History, 17th & 18th Centuries
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    Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–59) was one of the foremost nineteenth-century historians in the Whig tradition, which saw history as a series of developments towards enlightenment and democracy. He believed that the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688 had preserved England from the constitutional upheavals suffered by much of Europe in 1848. Using a wider range of sources, including popular literature, than was then usual, and written in an accessible, novelistic rather than academic style, this five-volume work proved hugely influential upon contemporary historians and phenomenally successful with the public, although it was not without its critics. Volume 5 was unfinished at the author's death; the text was edited by Macaulay's sister, Lady Trevelyan, and published in 1861. It covers the period from 1697 until 1702, and includes a description of the death, in 1702, of William, regarded by Lady Trevelyan as her brother's hero.

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