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W. Burrow, A Liberal Descent; Victorian Historians and the English Past (Cambridge, ). Historical distance and the historiography of Britain instructive. Hume looked upon the achievements of post-revolutionary Britain with a measure of confidence that allowed him to cultivate a certain detachment with respect to the revolutions of the previous century. Burke, on the other hand, wrote from what he saw as the brink of a threatened loss of that stability of manners on which Hume generally believed his polite and commercial society could rely.
Mark Salber Phillips and disciplines. In the period I am considering, the historical genres occupied a key mediating position: on the one side, history was flanked by the rising new genre of the novel, on the other it was touched by the key new discipline of political economy. This mediating position meant that history was an important foil in the formation of new genres; reciprocally, it also meant that history absorbed into its own repertoire many of the practices of surrounding disciplines and genres.
Gardiner) ‘the national hero of the nineteenth century’. Both Macaulay and, more especially, Carlyle contributed to this rehabilitation, but Worden identifies four principal reasons of a broader kind for the change. First, there was a shift in historical and political thinking that gave a new interest and respectability to the civil war period. Second, the struggles for political and social enfranchisement in the nineteenth century offered a new dimension of social aspiration and grievance to perceptions of the causes Cromwell represented.