Macaulay and the Enlightenment -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- The Enlightenment and Historical Progress -- Politics, Democracy, and Religious Toleration-- History and Biography -- Revolutions -- Colonialism and Cultural Progress -- Political Economy and Society -- Macaulay's Women -- Nature and Animals -- Art and Artistic Style -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
A new intellectual biography of Thomas Babington Macaulay, showing how nineteenth-century British liberal culture retained and transformed the ideas of the Enlightenment in a rapidly changing world
