John Edwin McGee
John Edwin McGee was an English historian, notably of positivism.
Logan (2009) describes McGee's 1931 text as a basic but dated source of factual information, "told from the perspective of a true believer."[1][2]
His works included:
- A syllabus in the teaching of history 1934
- An outline of English history 1936
- A crusade for humanity: the history of organized positivism in England, London : Watts & Co., 1931
- A history of the British secular movement 1948
References
[edit]- ^ Logan, Peter (2009). Victorian fetishism : intellectuals and primitives. Albany: State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-7661-1. OCLC 316432611.
McGee is a basic but dated source of factual information, told from the perspective of a true believer
- ^ John Edwin McGee, A Crusade for Humanity: The History of Organized Positivism in England (London: Watts, 1931). 64.