A companion to Enlightenment historiography /
This book provides a survey of the most important historians and historiographical debates in the long eighteenth century, examining these debates' stylistic, philosophical and political significance. The chapters, many of which were specially commissioned for this volume, offer a mixture of ac...
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| Other Authors: | , |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2013.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9789004251847 9004251847 1299691013 9781299691018 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | This book provides a survey of the most important historians and historiographical debates in the long eighteenth century, examining these debates' stylistic, philosophical and political significance. The chapters, many of which were specially commissioned for this volume, offer a mixture of accessible introduction and original interpretive argument; they will thus appeal both to the scholar of the period and the more general reader. Part I considers Gibbon, Hume, Robertson, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Herder and Vico. Part II explores wider themes of national and thematic context: English, Scottish, French and German Enlightenment historians are discussed, as are the concepts of historical progress, secularism, the origins of historicism and the deployments of Greek and Roman antiquity within 18th century historiography. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Series: | Brill's companions to European history ;
3. |
| Library Staff: | View instance in FOLIO |