Charting the past : the historical worlds of eighteenth-century England /

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Tác giả chính: Black, Jeremy, 1955- (Tác giả)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, Office of Scholarly Publishing, Herman B Wells Library [2019]
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv6mtfpj
Mục lục:
  • The world of history
  • Purposes, narratives, methods
  • A historical world of partisan strife: the early eighteenth century
  • Contrasting approaches: Burnet and Astell
  • The unstable past: dissenters and history
  • History suited to midcentury struggle
  • From the new reign to the crisis of empire, 1760-76
  • Empire as historical narrative: Gibbon and the Descent of civilizations
  • History in the age of Burke.