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Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 1st Baron - 1800–1859, English historian and author, b. Leicestershire, educated at Cambridge. After the success of his essay on Milton in the Edinburgh Review (Aug., 1825), he contributed regularly to that journal. He was called to the bar in 1826 and, elected to Parliament in 1830, distinguished himself as a Whig orator. In India, 1834–38, as a member

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Under Western Eyes: India from Milton to Macaulay » Read Now
by Balachandra Rajan. 268 pgs.

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Spanning nearly two & a half centuries of English literature about India, Under Western Eyes traces the development of an imperial discourse that governed the English view of India well into the twentieth century. Narrating this history from its Reformation beginnings to its Victorian consolidation...
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Spanning nearly two & a half centuries of English literature about India, Under Western Eyes traces the development of an imperial discourse that governed the English view of India well into the twentieth century. Narrating this history from its Reformation beginnings to its Victorian consolidation, Balachandra Rajan tracks this imperial presence through a wide range of literary & ideological sites. In so doing, he explores from a postcolonial vantage point collusions of gender, commerce, & empire-while revealing the tensions, self-deceptions, & conflicts at work within the English imperial design. Rajan begins with the Portuguese poet Camoes, whose poem celebrating Vasco da Gama's passage to India becomes, according to its eighteenth-century English translator, the epic of those who would possess India. He closely examines Milton's treatment of the Orient & Dryden's Aureng-Zebe, the first English literary work on an Indian subject. Texts by Shelley, Southey, Mill, & Macaulay, among others, come under careful scrutiny, as does Hegel's significant impact on English imperial discourse. Comparing the initial English representation of its actions in India (as a matter of commerce, not conquest) & its contemporaneous treatment of Ireland, Rajan exposes contradictions that shed new light on the English construction of a subaltern India. Giving postcolonial thought a historical dimension, Under Western Eyes also places literary history in new perspective through postcolonial readings. It will interest scholars of cultural history, particularly British imperial history, & those engaged with postcolonial, literary, subaltern, South Asian, & cultural studies.
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Historians of India, Pakistan and Ceylon (Chap. 18 "Macaulay's Writing on India") » Read Now
by C. H. Philips. 506 pgs.

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...17. JAMES MILL, MOUNTSTUART ELPHINSTONE, AND THE HISTORY OF INDIA C. H. Philips 217 18. MACAULAYS WRITINGS ON INDIA R. K. Das Gupta 230 19. IDEAS OF HISTORY IN INDIAN...
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Ten Master Historians (Chap. VIII "Lord Macaulay (1800-1859)") » Read Now
by L. M. Angus-Butterworth. 184 pgs.

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...with authority. Thus on 10 August 1757, Thomas Gray wrote in a personal letter, "I am...Catherine, daughter of the Very Rev. Dr. Thomas Crofton, D.D., who was a member of...
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The Conservative Mind, from Burke to Santayana (Chap. VI "Liberal Conservatives: Macaulay, Cooper, Tocqueville") » Read Now
by Russell Kirk. 458 pgs.

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...human endeavors at miracle-manufacturing. He kindled a fire to stifle the blaze in France. As late as the summer of 1789, Thomas Paine himself whom Burke had previously...
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A Commentary on Macaulay's History of England » Read Now
by Charles Firth. 375 pgs.

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...of the earlier. These three were Gibbon, Thomas Arnold, and Macaulay. He adds: I know that to run down Lord Macaulay...Burnets errors. Of his account of the death of...
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The History of England from the Accession of James II, Vol. 1 » Read Now
by Thomas Babington Macaulay. 552 pgs.

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...ACCESSION OF JAMES II. BY THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY. VOLUME I. PHILADELPHIA: J...unexceptionable testimony of Sir Thomas Smith, one of the ablest Prot...Howard married the...
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The History of England from the Accession of James II, Vol. 2 » Read Now
by Thomas Babington Macaulay. 542 pgs.

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...ACCESSION OF JAMES II. BY THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY. VOLUME II. PHILADELPHIA...demanded time for consideration. Sir Thomas Clarges, maternal uncle of the...proceeding of...
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The History of England from the Accession of James II, Vol. 3 » Read Now
by Thomas Babington Macaulay. 622 pgs.

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...THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE ACCESSION OF JAMES II. BY THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY. VOLUME III. PHILADELPHIA J. B. LIPPINCOTT CO. 1884. CONTENTS OF THE THIRD VOLUME...
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The History of England, from the Accession of James II, Vol. 4 » Read Now
by Thomas Babington Macaulay. 678 pgs.

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...ACCESSION OF JAMES II. BY THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY. VOLUME IV PHILADELPHIA: J...Bill against Sir Thomas Cook , 442 Inquiry...622 Case of Thomas Aikenhead , 623...
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Figures of Finance Capitalism: Writing, Class, and Capital in the Age of Dickens (Chap. One "A Historian in the Literary Marketplace: T. B. Macaulay, the English Constitution, and Finance Capitalism") » Read Now
by Borislav Knezevic. 234 pgs.

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Figures of Finance Capitalism brings into focus Victorian narratives by major middle-class writers in which the workings of finance capitalism are prominently featured, and reads this interest in finance capitalism in the context of middle-class misgivings about a class system still dominated by a...
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Figures of Finance Capitalism brings into focus Victorian narratives by major middle-class writers in which the workings of finance capitalism are prominently featured, and reads this interest in finance capitalism in the context of middle-class misgivings about a class system still dominated by a patrician elite. This book illustrates the centrality of finance capitalism to the mid-Victorian middle-class social imagination by discussing a selection of major Victorian texts by Dickens, Gaskell, Thackeray and Macaulay. In so doing, it draws on several new perspectives on British history, as offered in the work of historians such as Tom Nairn, David Cannadine, and P.J. Cain and A.G. Hopkins. Articulating the basic coordinates for a new sociology of mid-Victorian literature, Borislav Knezevic views texts through the prism of the mid-Victorian literary field and its negotiations of the contemporary field of power.
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Domestic Biography: The Legacy of Evangelicalism in Four Nineteenth-Century Families (Chap. 5 "The Life of Macaulay") » Read Now
by Christopher Tolley. 290 pgs.

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This is a fascinating account of the influence of evangelicalism upon eminent Victorians. Recording family life was an important ritual in Victorian households, and out of this habit grew a new literary genre, the domestic biography, extolling individual piety and domestic virtue. Using documents...
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This is a fascinating account of the influence of evangelicalism upon eminent Victorians. Recording family life was an important ritual in Victorian households, and out of this habit grew a new literary genre, the domestic biography, extolling individual piety and domestic virtue. Using documents from the archives of the Macaulay, Stephen, Wilberforce, and Thornton families, Dr Tolley analyzes the biographical tradition and its lasting effects upon "family values."
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Literary Copyright Reform in Early Victorian England: The Framing of the 1842 Copyright Act ("Macaulay" begins on p. 60) » Read Now
by Catherine Seville. 300 pgs.

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Talfourd's Copyright Bill was first presented in 1837, and the public and Parliamentary controversy it provoked is reflected in contemporary pamphlets, correspondence, and hundreds of petitions presented to Parliament, as well as in the changing aims of the Bill. This book explores and sets in...
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Talfourd's Copyright Bill was first presented in 1837, and the public and Parliamentary controversy it provoked is reflected in contemporary pamphlets, correspondence, and hundreds of petitions presented to Parliament, as well as in the changing aims of the Bill. This book explores and sets in context the making of the Copyright Act of 1842, using it to illuminate enduring issues and difficulties in the legal concept of intellectual property. A unique feature for legal historians is Appendix II in which Dr. Seville traces the progress of eleven versions of the Bill.
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British Orientalism and the Bengal Renaissance: The Dynamics of Indian Modernization, 1773-1835 (Discussion of Thomas Babbington Macaulay begins on p. 243) » Read Now
by David Kopf. 326 pgs.

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...found their modernizing program challenged by an alternative program advocated by such dedicated Westernizers as Thomas B. Macaulay. The Westernizers proposed that Indians...