The History of England from the Accession of James I to that of the Brunswick Line
The History of England from the Accession of James I to that of the Brunswick Line
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USDA 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.
Product details
September 2013Paperback
9781108067560
464 pages
254 × 178 × 24 mm
0.8kg
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. James I:
- 1. Accession of James
- 2. Gun-powder plot
- 3. Parliament
- 4. Rise of Somerset
- 5. Cautionary towns delivered
- 6. Negotiations with Spain
- 7. The unjust treatment of Sir Edward Coke
- 8. Parliament
- 9. State of the civil and ecclesiastical government of England at the accession of the Stewart family
- Part II. Charles I:
- 1. Accession of Charles
- 2. Violent measures of the court.
