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The rhetoric of numbers in Gibbon's History /
<Span style="line-height:1.15"> Gibbon's <span style="font-style:italic;">History is one of the great master-narratives in the Western tradition. This book examines the ways in which Gibbon uses numbers: not only as historical evidence, for informational purposes...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newark :
University of Delaware Press,
c2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | <Span style="line-height:1.15"> Gibbon's <span style="font-style:italic;">History is one of the great master-narratives in the Western tradition. This book examines the ways in which Gibbon uses numbers: not only as historical evidence, for informational purposes, but to persuade (and sometimes to amuse), through the creation of a narrative voice that is at once authoritative and personal. <br /> <br /> |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 213 p.) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781611494174 1611494176 |