TY  - BOOK
AU  - Towsey,Mark R.M.
TI  - Reading history in Britain and America, c.1750 - c.1840
SN  - 9781108591072
AV  - D13.5.G7 T69 2019
U1  - 907.2/041 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Cambridge, New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - United States
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - 19th century
KW  - fast
KW  - HISTORY / Study & Teaching
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; History and the life cycle of the reader -- Sceptical historiography and the problem of infidelity -- Contesting constitutional history -- A nation united? histories of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales -- Rewriting the American nation -- Historical information and the management of empire
N2  - The period between c.1750 and c.1840 is popularly known for the rise of the novel, yet historical works by Enlightenment writers, including David Hume, Edward Gibbon and William Robertson, were some of its most commercially successful books. Moving beyond the range of previous studies that have sought to explain this success by focussing on publishers, writers and their ideas, Mark Towsey's study is the first to focus on the reading audiences themselves. Drawing on a variety of sources including marginalia, letters, diaries and commonplace books, this lively book reveals why histories were so widely read, and shows how they were used by readers across the English-speaking world to make sense of a rapid change marked by social upheaval at home and revolution abroad. In doing so, it marks a major addition to the history of reading, shedding fascinating new light on how readers interpreted books in the past
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