The Idea of Progress. An Inquiry into Its Origin and Growth

Bury, J B

ISBN 10: 1406801089 / ISBN 13: 9781406801088

Published by Echo Library, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Idea of Progress. An Inquiry into Its Origin and Growth
• Publisher: Echo Library
• Publication Date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1406801089
• ISBN 13: 9781406801088
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

John Bagnell Bury (1861-1927) was an Irish historian, classical scholar and philologist. He was Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History at Trinity College, Dublin from 1893-1902 before being Regis Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University from 1902 until his death. Bury's writings, on subjects ranging from ancient Greece to the 19th century papacy, are at once scholarly and accessible to the layman. His two works on the philosophy of history, A History of Freedom of Thought (1913) and The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry into its Origin and Growth (1920), elucidated the Victorian ideals of progress and rationality which undergirded his more specific histories. Bury's career shows his evolving thought process and his consideration of the discipline of history as a 'science' and not a branch of 'literature'.

About the Author

At the time of original publication in 1921, J. B. Bury was Regius Professor of Modern History, and Fellow of King's College, in the University of Cambridge, and was a profound scholar and a philosophic thinker.