| Description |
324 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
London ed. (Macmillan) has title: Historical essays. |
| Contents |
I. The Holy Land -- II. The World of Homer -- III. The Dark Ages -- IV. The Medieval Italian Capitalists -- V. Ibn Khaldoun and the Decline of Barbary -- VI. Up and Down in the Country: The Paston Letters -- VII. Desiderius Erasmus -- VIII. Niccolo Machiavelli -- IX. The Twilight of the Monks -- X. England's Moderniser: Thomas Cromwell -- XI. The Crisis of English Humanism: Reginald Pole and His Circle -- XII. Hugh Latimer and the English Commonwealth -- XIII. Sir Thomas More and the English Lay Recusants -- XIV. Elizabeth and Cecil -- XV. The Last Elizabethan: Sir Walter Raleigh -- XVI. The Jesuit Mission in England and the Gunpowder Plot -- XVII. Twice Martyred: The English Jesuits and Their Historians -- XVIII. The Jesuits in Japan -- XIX. Fuller's "Worthies' and the Age of English Charity -- XX. James I and His Bishops -- XXI. The Jewish Dispersion -- XXII. The Sephardim in England -- XXIII. The Jews and Modern Capitalism -- XXIV. Rubens in Politics -- XXV. Gustavus Adolphus and the Swedish Empire -- XXVI. A Case of Co-Existence: Christendom and the Turks -- XXVII. The Country-House Radicals -- XXVIII. The Outbreak of the Great Rebellion -- XXIX. The Social Causes of the Great Rebellion -- XXX. The Myth of Charles I: A Tercentenary Occasion -- XXXI. 'Eikon Basilike': The Problem of the King's Book -- XXXII. The Quakers -- XXXIII. Huguenots and Papists -- XXXIV. Thomas Hobbes -- XXXV. The Anti-Hobbists -- XXXVI. Clarendon and the Great Rebellion -- XXVII: Macaulay and the Glorious Revolution -- XXXVIII. The Marquis of Halifax -- XXXIX. The Spanish Enlightenment -- XL. The Faustian Historian: Jacob Burckhardt -- XLI. Lytton Strachey as Historian -- XLII. Karl Marx and the Study of History -- XLIII. Arnold Toynbee's Millennium |
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History.
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History. |
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