Book Details
Orange Code:93048
Paperback:519 pages
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1. Edward Gibbon: Historian in Space2. Politics and Culture in Hume’s History of England3. William Robertson: The Minister as Historian4. Montesquieu and Plutarch: Reflections on Historical Analysis in Broader Social Scientific Comparison5. Voltaire: Polemical Possibilities of History6. Herder in 1774: An Incomplete Philosophy of History7. German Enlightenment Historiography and the Rise of Historicism8. Identity and Innovation: Historiography in the Scottish Enlightenment9. The Beginnings of Enlightenment Historiography in Britain10. Philosophes, Anticlericalism, Reactionaries and Progress in French Enlightenment Historiography11. Roman Historiography of Eighteenth-Century Britain Beyond Gibbon: Ancient Norms of Empire for Moderns
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"A Companion to Enlightenment Historiography" offers a survey of the most important historians and historiographical debates in the long eighteenth century, examining these debates stylistic, philosophical and political significance."
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