Author:William Hickling Prescott

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William Hickling Prescott
(1796–1859)

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American historian and hispanist who is widely recognized by historiographers to have been the first American scientific historian. Prescott became one of the most eminent historians of the 19th century

Works

History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic
1st edition (1837), in 4 vols.

10th edition (1846), in 3 vols.
History of the Conquest of Mexico (1843), in 3 vols.
History of the Conquest of Peru (1847), in 2 vols.
History of the Reign of Phillip II (1856–1858), in 4 vols.
Conquest of Peru

Works about Prescott

Life of William Hickling Prescott by George Ticknor (1864)
"Prescott, William Hickling," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
"Prescott, William Hickling," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Prescott, William Hickling," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)

On his works

"Prescott's History of the Conquest of Mexico" in Littell's Living Age, 1 (1) (1844)

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