A reappraisal of the work of five major narrative historians (Voltaire, Hume, Robertson, Gibbon and Ramsay) in eighteenth-century Europe and America.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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Inhaltsangabe
Acknowledgements and author's note 1. Introduction: cosmopolitanism, narrative, history 2. Voltaire's neoclassical poetics of history 3. European contexts in Hume's History of England 4. William Robertson to the rescue of Scottish history 5. Robertson on the triumph of Europe and its empires 6. Emulation and revival: Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 7. David Ramsay's sceptical history of the American Revolution Afterword Bibliography Index.
Acknowledgements and author's note 1. Introduction: cosmopolitanism, narrative, history 2. Voltaire's neoclassical poetics of history 3. European contexts in Hume's History of England 4. William Robertson to the rescue of Scottish history 5. Robertson on the triumph of Europe and its empires 6. Emulation and revival: Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 7. David Ramsay's sceptical history of the American Revolution Afterword Bibliography Index.
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