{"product_id":"the-correspondence-of-catharine-macaulay-paperback","title":"The Correspondence of Catharine Macaulay - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKaren Green\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCatharine Macaulay was a celebrated republican historian, whose account of the reasons for the seventeenth-century English Revolution, the parliamentary period, and its aftermath was widely read by the mothers and fathers of American Independence and by central players in the French Revolution. As well as publishing her eight volume history, spanning the period from the accession of James I to the Glorious Revolution of 1688, she wrote political pamphlets, offered a sketch of a republican constitution for Corsica, advocated parliamentary reform, and published a response to Edmund Burke's \u003cem\u003eReflections on the Revolution in France\u003c\/em\u003e. Her \u003cem\u003eLetters on Education\u003c\/em\u003e of 1790 made a decisive impact on the thought of Mary Wollstonecraft, and her \u003cem\u003eTreatise on the Immutability of Moral Truth\u003c\/em\u003e opposed the skeptical and utilitarian attitudes being developed by Hume and others. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis volume brings together for the first time all the available letters between her and her wide-ranging correspondents, who include George Washington, John Adams, Abigail Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, James Otis, Benjamin Rush, David Hume, James Boswell, Thomas Hollis, John Wilkes, Horace Walpole, Mary Wollstonecraft, Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville, and many other luminaries of the eighteenth-century enlightenment. It includes an extended introduction to her life and works and offers a unique insight into the thinking of her friends and correspondents during the period between 1760 and 1790, the crucible for the development of modern representative democracies. \u003cem\u003eThe Correspondence of Catharine Macaulay\u003c\/em\u003e will appeal to scholars of philosophy, political thought, women's studies, and eighteenth-century history, as well as those interested in the development of democratic ideas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKaren Green\u003c\/strong\u003e has been a pioneer in the movement to include women's philosophical texts in the history of philosophy, concentrating on their contributions to political and ethical thought. In 1995 she published \u003cem\u003eThe Woman of Reason: Feminism, Humanism and Political Thought \u003c\/em\u003e(Polity) and most recently \u003cem\u003eA History of Women's Political Thought in Europe, 1700-1800\u003c\/em\u003e (Cambridge, 2014).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 344\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51753919021344,"sku":"9780190934460","price":97.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/576ec59bcd5e5d8a6be23c2da60fc7a1.webp?v=1780029565","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-correspondence-of-catharine-macaulay-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}