The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 : The Last Stewarts and the Glorious Revolution (History of England (Liberty Classics)) - Hardcover

Hume, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0865970343 ISBN 13: 9780865970342

Publisher: Liberty Fund, 1985

Synopsis

Volume VI discusses the Commonwealth established by Oliver Cromwell, the Stuart Restoration, making Charles II king, succeeded by his brother, James II, the abdication of James, and Parliament's offer of the Act of Settlement, and the accession of William and Mary.

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About the Author:

David Hume was an eighteenth-century Scottish philosopher, historian, and essayist, and the author of A Treatise of Human Nature, considered by many to be one of the most important philosophical works ever published.

Hume attended the University of Edinburgh at an early age and considered a career in law before deciding that the pursuit of knowledge was his true calling. Hume s writings on rationalism and empiricism, free will, determinism, and the existence of God would be enormously influential on contemporaries such as Adam Smith, as well as the philosophers like Schopenhauer, John Stuart Mill, and Karl Popper, who succeeded him. Hume died in 1776.

Review:

"Hume's History deserves to be ranked with such works as Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War and Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.... The theme of liberty, above all others, gives continuity to Hume's detailed examination of English constitutional development from the Anglo-Saxon period to the Revolution of 1688."

About this edition

• Publisher: Liberty Fund
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0865970343
• ISBN 13: 9780865970342
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 721