Mark Towsey

Reading History in Britain and America, c.1750-c.1840

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Produktbeschreibung

Presents a dramatic account of how readers across the English-speaking world used history to understand the Age of Enlightenment and Revolutions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 615g
• ISBN-13: 9781108483001
• ISBN-10: 1108483003
• Artikelnr.: 54803718

Autorenporträt

Mark Towsey is Professor in the History of the Book and Director of the Eighteenth-Century Worlds Research Centre at the University of Liverpool. His previous publications include Reading the Scottish Enlightenment: Books and their Readers in Provincial Scotland, 1750-1820 (2010) and Before the Public Library: Reading, Community, and Identity in the Atlantic World, 1650-1850 (2017).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. 'History now is the favourite reading'
1. History and the life cycle of the reader
2. Sceptical historiography and the problem of infidelity
3. Contesting constitutional history
4. A nation united? Histories of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales
5. Rewriting the American nation
6. Historical information and the management of Empire
Conclusion
Bibliography.