Macaulay and the Enlightenment

A new intellectual biography of Thomas Babington Macaulay, showing how nineteenth-century British liberal culture retained and transformed the ideas of the Enlightenment in a rapidly changing world.

List of contents

1 . The Enlightenment and Historical Progress
2. Politics, Democracy, and Religious Toleration
3. History and Biography
4. Revolutions
5. Colonialism and Cultural Progress
6. Political Economy and Society
7. Macaulay's Women
8. Nature and Animals
9. Art and Artistic Style
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Nathaniel Wolloch

Product details

• Authors: Nathaniel Wolloch
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.10.2022
• EAN: 9781783277254
• ISBN: 978-1-78327-725-4
• No. of pages: 428
• Dimensions: 242 mm x 163 mm x 31 mm
• Weight: 786 g
• Illustrations: 2 b/w illus.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education