Download or read book Newman and History written by Edward Short and published by Gracewing. This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Short shows how important history was to all aspects of the life and work of Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman. This acclaimed Newman scholar illuminates Newman's reactions to the work of Edward Gibbon, to the Whig historians, to history and hagiography, to the English Protestant Establishment, to conversion and above all to liberalism.