Title A liberal descent : Victorian historians and the English past / J.W. Burrow

Edition First paperback edition Published Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [1981]

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Description x, 308 pages ; 24 cm Contents pt. 1. The Whig: Macaulay and the Whig tradition A heritage and its history -- Macaulay: progress and piety -- Macaulay's Res publica -- pt. 2. The Tory: Stubbs and the ancient constitution The German inheritance: a people and its institutions -- Autonomy and self-realisation: Stubbs' constitutional history -- pt. 3. The Democrat: Freeman and the unity of history Teutonic freedom and municipal independence -- Conquest, continuity and restoration -- pt. 4. The imperialist: Froude's Protestant island 'Something strange and isolated': Froude and the sixteenth century -- The spirit's trial: Reformation and renewal Analysis Historiography England History 19th century English historiography Notes Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Includes index Subject Historians -- Great Britain. Historiography -- Great Britain. Historiography. SUBJECT Great Britain -- Historiography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100284 LC no. 81003912 ISBN 0521240794

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