Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay
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Languages : en
Pages : 190
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Macaulay's essay on William Pitt, earl of Chatham, with notes by M. Hunter
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay
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Languages : en
Pages : 190
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Languages : en
Pages : 190
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Macaulay
Author: Robert E. Sullivan
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674054695
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 625
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On the 150th anniversary of the death of the English historian and politician Thomas Babington Macaulay, Robert Sullivan offers a portrait of a Victorian life that probes the cost of power, the practice of empire, and the impact of ideas. His Macaulay is a Janus-faced master of the universe: a prominent spokesman for abolishing slavery in the British Empire who cared little for the cause, a forceful advocate for reforming Whig politics but a Machiavellian realist, a soaring parliamentary orator who avoided debate, a self-declared Christian, yet a skeptic and a secularizer of English history and culture, and a stern public moralist who was in love with his two youngest sisters. Perhaps best known in the West for his classic History of England, Macaulay left his most permanent mark on South Asia, where his penal code remains the law. His father ensured that ancient Greek and Latin literature shaped Macaulay’s mind, but he crippled his heir emotionally. Self-defense taught Macaulay that power, calculation, and duplicity rule politics and human relations. In Macaulay’s writings, Sullivan unearths a sinister vision of progress that prophesied twentieth-century genocide. That the reverent portrait fashioned by Macaulay’s distinguished extended family eclipsed his insistent rhetoric about race, subjugation, and civilizing slaughter testifies to the grip of moral obliviousness. Devoting his huge talents to gaining power—above all for England and its empire—made Macaulay’s life a tragedy. Sullivan offers an unsurpassed study of an afflicted genius and a thoughtful meditation on the modern ethics of power.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674054695
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
On the 150th anniversary of the death of the English historian and politician Thomas Babington Macaulay, Robert Sullivan offers a portrait of a Victorian life that probes the cost of power, the practice of empire, and the impact of ideas. His Macaulay is a Janus-faced master of the universe: a prominent spokesman for abolishing slavery in the British Empire who cared little for the cause, a forceful advocate for reforming Whig politics but a Machiavellian realist, a soaring parliamentary orator who avoided debate, a self-declared Christian, yet a skeptic and a secularizer of English history and culture, and a stern public moralist who was in love with his two youngest sisters. Perhaps best known in the West for his classic History of England, Macaulay left his most permanent mark on South Asia, where his penal code remains the law. His father ensured that ancient Greek and Latin literature shaped Macaulay’s mind, but he crippled his heir emotionally. Self-defense taught Macaulay that power, calculation, and duplicity rule politics and human relations. In Macaulay’s writings, Sullivan unearths a sinister vision of progress that prophesied twentieth-century genocide. That the reverent portrait fashioned by Macaulay’s distinguished extended family eclipsed his insistent rhetoric about race, subjugation, and civilizing slaughter testifies to the grip of moral obliviousness. Devoting his huge talents to gaining power—above all for England and its empire—made Macaulay’s life a tragedy. Sullivan offers an unsurpassed study of an afflicted genius and a thoughtful meditation on the modern ethics of power.
Macaulay's essay on Milton, with notes by H.R. James
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay
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Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Pages : 212
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General catalogue of printed books
Author: British museum. Dept. of printed books
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Languages : en
Pages : 504
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Languages : en
Pages : 504
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General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975
Author: British Library (London)
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Outlines of English and American Literature
Author: William Joseph Long
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
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The Dial
Author: Francis Fisher Browne
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 932
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 932
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The Journal of Education
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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