William H. Prescott
William Hickling Prescott (May 4, 1796 – January 28, 1859) was an American historian and Hispanist, who is widely recognized by historiographers to have been the first American scientific historian. Despite having serious visual impairment, which at times prevented him from reading or writing for himself, Prescott became one of the most eminent historians of 19th century America. He is also noted for his eidetic memory, also called "Photographic Memory".After an extensive period of study, during which he sporadically contributed to academic journals, Prescott specialized in late Renaissance Spain and the early Spanish Empire. His works on the subject, ''The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic'' (1837), ''The History of the Conquest of Mexico'' (1843), ''A History of the Conquest of Peru'' (1847) and the unfinished ''History of the Reign of Phillip II'' (1856–1858) have become classic works in the field, and have had a great impact on the study of both Spain and Mesoamerica. During his lifetime, he was upheld as one of the greatest living American intellectuals, and knew personally many of the leading political figures of the day, in both the United States and Britain. Prescott has become one of the most widely translated American historians, and was an important figure in the development of history as a rigorous academic discipline. Historians admire Prescott for his exhaustive, careful, and systematic use of archives, his accurate recreation of sequences of events, his balanced judgments and his lively writing style. He was primarily focused on political and military affairs, largely ignoring economic, social, intellectual, and cultural forces that in recent decades historians have focused on. Instead, he wrote narrative history, subsuming unstated causal forces in his driving storyline. Provided by Wikipedia
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by Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859
Published 1980
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by Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859
Published 1875
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by Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859
Published 1884
Published 1884
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by Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859
Published 1839
Published 1839
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by Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859
Published 1963
Published 1963
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by Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859
Published 1873
Published 1873
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by Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859
Published 1966
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by Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859
Published 1967
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Published 1966
Published 1966
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by Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859
Published 2000
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by Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859
Published 1950
Published 1950
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by Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859
Published 1851
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by Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859
Published 1873
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by Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859
Published 1957
Published 1957
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by Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859
Published 1963
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by Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859
Published 1848
Published 1848
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by Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859
Published 1967
Published 1967
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by Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859
Published 1936
Published 1936
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by Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859
Published 1964
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by Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859
Published 1970
Published 1970
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