Titre :	History of Civilization in England : Volume 2
Type de document :	texte imprimé
Auteurs :	Henry Thomas Buckle, Auteur
Editeur :	Archives Contemporaines
Importance :	638 pages
Format :	14 x 3.6 x 21.6 cm
ISBN/ISSN/EAN :	13:9781108036
Langues :	Anglais (eng) Langues originales : Anglais (eng)
Index. décimale :	942 Angleterre et pays de Galles
Résumé :	English historian Henry Thomas Buckle (1821-62) was born into the family of a wealthy London merchant. A child of delicate health, and tutored privately at home, he never attended university. Nevertheless, it was clear that he was meant for intellectual pursuits and by the age of twenty he was a formidable chess player. With his love of books and reading, he set out on an ambitious plan to write a fourteen-volume history of civilisation, and at the same time to put historical research on a more scientific basis. The work would have included a greater number of countries, but due to his early death, only two volumes exist. Published in 1861, this is the second of two volumes that make up Buckle's unfinished history of civilization. It focuses on Scotland, and its intellectual, religious, political and social history. It also includes a chapter on Spain.

History of Civilization in England : Volume 2 [texte imprimé] / Henry Thomas Buckle, Auteur . - [S.l.] : Archives Contemporaines, [s.d.] . - 638 pages ; 14 x 3.6 x 21.6 cm.
ISSN : 13:9781108036
Langues : Anglais (eng) Langues originales : Anglais (eng)

Index. décimale :

942 Angleterre et pays de Galles

Résumé :

English historian Henry Thomas Buckle (1821-62) was born into the family of a wealthy London merchant. A child of delicate health, and tutored privately at home, he never attended university. Nevertheless, it was clear that he was meant for intellectual pursuits and by the age of twenty he was a formidable chess player. With his love of books and reading, he set out on an ambitious plan to write a fourteen-volume history of civilisation, and at the same time to put historical research on a more scientific basis. The work would have included a greater number of countries, but due to his early death, only two volumes exist. Published in 1861, this is the second of two volumes that make up Buckle's unfinished history of civilization. It focuses on Scotland, and its intellectual, religious, political and social history. It also includes a chapter on Spain.