The Expansion of England : Two Courses of Lectures

John Robert Seeley

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: Cosimo Classics, 2005

1596052651 / 9781596052659

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - [T]he history of England ought to end with something that might be called a moral. Some large conclusion ought to arise out of it; it ought to exhibit the general tendency of English affairs in such a way as to set us thinking about the future and divining the destiny, which is reserved for us.-J.R. Seeley, from 'Lecture 1: Tendency in English History'From this optimistic and enthusiastic starting point, the prominent historian and classical scholar launches into a fervent elevation of Britain's imperial enterprise. The empire was flourishing when he came to its defense in this, his most successful work, first published in 1883, but Seeley worried about the peculiar inattentiveness on the part of the empire's masters: 'We seem to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind,' Seeley frets here. With this nod of approval to what he believed was an English destiny to 'civilize' the world, this work became a standard text for the new wave of liberal imperialists in 1880s Britain. Today, it is an illuminating look at a world power so enthralled to its own hubris that it could not see downfall looming.SIR JOHN ROBERT SEELEY (1834-1895) was Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and an honorary member of Historical Society of Massachusetts. He is also the author of Ecce Homo.…

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Titolo
The Expansion of England : Two Courses of Lectures
Autore
John Robert Seeley
Editore
Cosimo Classics
Anno di pubblicazione
2005
Condizione
Neu
Rilegatura
Taschenbuch
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
1596052651
ISBN 13
9781596052659
Peso dell'articolo
386 grammi
Dimensioni
203x127x19 mm

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