The Race of Time: Three Lectures on Renaissance Historiography (Alexander Lectures) - Softcover

Baker, Hershel

 
9780802061300: The Race of Time: Three Lectures on Renaissance Historiography (Alexander Lectures)
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ISBN 10: 0802061303 ISBN 13: 9780802061300
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 1967

Synopsis

Professor Baker recounts and analyses the relations of the English Renaissance historians to other writers of their time and to the historians of later ages. Supported and enlivened with a wealth of quotation from the historians themselves, their critics and their colleagues, The Race of Time illuminates the problems of historiography in an age when academic freedom was always subservient to the national interest, to the sensitivity of rulers, to the prevalence of legends, and to the envy of contemporaries.

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About the Author

Hershel Baker was born in Texas and educated at Harvard, where he taught as Francis Lee Higgonson Professor of English Literature. His publications include John Philip Kemble, The Dignity of Man, The Wars of Truth, William Hazlitt, and (in collaboration with the late Hyder Rollins) The Renaissance in England.

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Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Publication date
1967
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0802061303
ISBN 13 
9780802061300
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
112

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