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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      May 2012
      December 2011
      ISBN:
      9781139094528
      9781108036436
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139094528
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      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.1kg, 884 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Social and Population History, British History: General Interest, History
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, General
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    Subjects:
    Social and Population History, British History: General Interest, History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, General
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    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 1857, this is the first of two volumes that make up Buckle's unfinished history of civilisation. It focuses on England and France, and their intellectual, political, religious and social histories.

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