Macaulay (Historians on Historians)

Lewes Great Britain: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988. Paperback Macaulay Historians on Historians by Owen Dudley Edwards 182pp Acknowledgements vii Chronology ix 1 Llife 1 2 Thhe lays of ancient Rome 54. 3 The Essays relating to history 83. 4 The History of England..Notes156/ Bibliographical note 170. index 175.Own Dudley Edwards brings out for the first time the importance of Macaulay's Highland ancestry, both in his use of oral historical tradition and in the alienation which rested at he heart of his apparently English confidence: he saw himself as a racial mixture of Celtic and Saxon, and believed in the necessity for a racially mixed Empire in which all racial groups would be subsumed into the great and broadening English Tradition. ... (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . 1st Paperback Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback.