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Samuel Rawson Gardiner and the idea of history

Samuel Rawson Gardiner [1829-1902] is the colossus of seventeenth-century historiography. Yet, his work has often been reduced by historians of historiography to simple caricature, in which his personal politics and his denominational allegiances got the better of his worthy empiricism. Nixon's book seeks to challenge this inadequate view, by locating his writings within a wide range of literary and philosophical milieux, British and continental European. It suggests new ways of looking at Victorian historiography in general.

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