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Samuel Rawson Gardiner and the Idea of History (Hardcover, New)
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Samuel Rawson Gardiner and the Idea of History (Hardcover, New)
Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series
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A study of an eminent historian of seventeenth-century Britain and
his work, showing its continued importance for all those working on
the period. Samuel Rawson Gardiner [1829-1902] is the colossus of
seventeenth-century historiography. His twenty-volume history of
Britain from 1603 to 1656 and his many editions of key texts still
serve to underpin almost all study of the Civil Wars and of the
Commonwealth and Protectorate. Yet, despite his importance, his
work has often been reduced by historians of historiography to
simple caricature, in which his personal politics and his
denominational allegiances got the better of his worthy empiricism.
This book seeks to challenge the inadequate view of him and his
work, offering a rich contextualisation by locating his writings
within a wide range of literary and philosophical milieux,British
and continental European. In so doing it not only suggests new ways
of looking at Victorian historiography in general, but also
proposes a new approach to the growing history of historical
writing. Mark Nixon is an independent scholar and museum curator.
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