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  3. Observations on the Reflections of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, on the Revolution in France
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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 October 2013
    14 June 2012
    ISBN:
    9781139177627
    9781108045407
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139177627
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    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.14kg, 98 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Social and Population History, Area Studies, European History after 1450, History, European Studies, Philosophy, Political Philosophy
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - European History
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    Subjects:
    Social and Population History, Area Studies, European History after 1450, History, European Studies, Philosophy, Political Philosophy
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    Cambridge Library Collection - European History
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    Catharine Macaulay (1731–91) is considered to have been the first female historian. Her eight-volume History of England (1763–83) and her radical views brought her considerable fame in eighteenth-century England. She was a political activist in favour of parliamentary reform, and wrote several political pamphlets on the subject. She also wrote the feminist work Letters on Education (1790), which argues for the equal education of men and women and is thought to have been influential upon Mary Wollstonecraft. Macaulay supported both the American Revolution and the French Revolution and saw them as moves towards equality and liberty. This political pamphlet, first published in 1790, was written in support of the French Revolution and against Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France. It is a passionate polemic that challenges Burke's interpretation of British history. It remains an important work in the history of political philosophy.

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