William Hickling Prescott (1796-1859) was one of the greatest American historians. The theme that absorbed him for over 30 years was the rise and decline of the Spanish Empire.William Hickling Prescot...
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William Hickling Prescott (4 May 1796-28 January 1859), early Victorian historian of the Spanish empire, was born in Salem, Massachusetts. Prescott possessed the typical characteristics of the Brahmin...
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William Hickling Prescott, Boston aristocrat and patrician-historian, is universally recognized as the first United States historian to investigate seriously Spanish and Spanish-American history. His ...
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Before gaining his international reputation as America's foremost romantic historian of Spain, William Hickling Prescott was a regular contributor to the North American Review, one of the oldest and m...
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William Hickling Prescott won critical acclaim, popular success, and enduring influence as the first scholarly United States historian of Spain and Spanish America. A Boston Brahmin who made letters h...
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William Hickling Prescott
William Hickling Prescott