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  Edward Augustus Freeman -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Edward Augustus Freeman (August 2, 1823 - March 16, 1892) was an (An Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the Commonwealth countries) English (A person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it) historian.
Freeman's range included Greek, Roman and the earlier part of English history, together with some portions of foreign medieval history, and he had a scholarly though general knowledge of the rest of the history of the European world.
Freeman regarded (Capital and largest city of Italy; on the Tiber; seat of the Roman Catholic Church; formerly the capital of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire) Rome as "the central truth of European history," the bond of its unity, and he undertook his History of Sicily (1891-1894) partly because it illustrated this unity.
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 Introductory Note. Edward Augustus Freeman. 1909-14. Essays: English and American. The Harvard Classics
Freeman believed in the unity of the study of history, and in the wide range of his own writings he went far toward realizing the universality he preached.
The anthropologists of a more recent time, with their study of skull-shapes and complexions, have sought to correct misapprehensions; but the popular mind is still in a mist about the whole matter.
In the following essay Freeman brings his knowledge of modern scientific results and his enormous historical information to the rescue of the bewildered student, and does much to clear up the perplexing relations of race with language, custom, and blood.
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 EDWARD AUGUSTUS FREEMAN - LoveToKnow Article on EDWARD AUGUSTUS FREEMAN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Freemans life was one of strenuous literary work.
Freeman advanced the study of history in England in two special directions, by insistence on the unity of history, and by teaching the importance and right use of original authorities.
While Froude often strayed away from his authorities, Freeman kept his authorities always before his eyes, and his narrative is here and there little more than a translation of their words.
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 Encyclopedia article on Edward Augustus Freeman [EncycloZine]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Edward Augustus Freeman (August 2, 1823 - March 16, 1892) was an English historian.
He was born at Harborne, Staffordshire, lost both his parents in infancy, was brought up by a grandmother, and was educated at private schools and by a private tutor.
Freeman regarded Rome as "the central truth of European history," the bond of its unity, and he undertook his History of Sicily (1891-1894) partly because it illustrated this unity.
encyclozine.com /Edward_Augustus_Freeman   (1662 words)

  
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"J. Pocock, Barbarism and Religion, Volume One, The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon; Volume Two, Narratives of Civil Government," The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography (forthcoming).
"Rosamond McKitterick and Roland Quinalt, eds., Edward Gibbon and Empire," The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography (forthcoming).
Edward Gibbon on Race," (Southwestern Historical Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 19, 1993).
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 Internet Modern History Sourcebook: The Long 19th Century
Edward Augustus Freeman (1823-92): Race and Language, 1879 [At this Site]
Edward Dicey: Bulgarian Political Attitudes, 1894 [At this Site]
Edward Jenner (1749-1823): Three Original Publications on Vaccination Against Smallpox, 1798 [At this Site]
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