{"product_id":"the-race-of-time-three-lectures-on-renaissance-historiography-paperback","title":"The Race of Time: Three Lectures on Renaissance Historiography - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHershel Baker\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProfessor Baker recounts and analyses the relations of the English Renaissance historians to other writers of their time and to the historians of later ages. Supported and enlivened with a wealth of quotation from the historians themselves, their critics and their colleagues, The Race of Time illuminates the problems of historiography in an age when academic freedom was always subservient to the national interest, to the sensitivity of rulers, to the prevalence of legends, and to the envy of contemporaries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHershel Baker\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Texas and educated at Harvard, where he taught as Francis Lee Higgonson Professor of English Literature. His publications include \u003cem\u003eJohn Philip Kemble\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Dignity of Man\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e The Wars of Truth\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWilliam Hazlitt\u003c\/em\u003e, and (in collaboration with the late Hyder Rollins) \u003cem\u003eThe Renaissance in England\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.23 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 15, 1967\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47521449803997,"sku":"9780802061300","price":42.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/NbL2C4E9AZ9780802061300.webp?v=1772259866","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/the-race-of-time-three-lectures-on-renaissance-historiography-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}