Liberal Descent - Victorian Historians and the English Past

Klappentext The book seeks to establish the significance for the Victorians of three great crises of English history. Zusammenfassung The book seeks to establish the significance for the Victorians of three great crises of English history. The book will interest students and teachers working on nineteenth-century English history! literature or social and political thought! the history of ideas! and legal and constitutional history. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; Part I: The whig; 2. A heritage and its history; 3. Macaulay: progress and piety; 4. Macaulay's res publica; Part II: The tory; 5. The German inheritance: a people and its institutions; 6. Autonomy and self-realisation: Stubbs' constitutional history; Part III: The democrat; 7. Teutonic freedom and municipal independence; 8. Conquest, continuity and restoration; Part IV: The imperialist; 9. 'Something strange and isolates': Froude and the sixteenth century; 10 The spirit's trials: Reformation and renewal; 11. Postscript.

Product details

• Authors: J. W. Burrow, J.w. Burrow
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.03.1983
• EAN: 9780521274821
• ISBN: 978-0-521-27482-1
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Cambridge Paperback Library
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History