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On historical distance /
Conceptions of distance are foundational to historical thought but Mark Salber Phillips gives the idea new subtlety and meaning. He argues that distance is a matter not just of time and space but also of form, affect, ideology, and understanding.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-C.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : rethinking historical distance : from doctrine to heuristic
- Machiavelli between history and chronicle
- A study in contrasts : Machiavelli, Guicciardini, and the idea of example
- "The most illustrious philosopher and historian of the age" : Hume and the balances of enlightenment history
- "What sympathy then touches every human heart!" : emotional identification in enlightenment and romantic histories
- Hundred Scottish ministers write the history of everyday life : contrasting distances in Sinclair's "Statistical account of Scotland"
- Past and present : contrastive narratives in the romantic age
- "The very web and texture of society as it really exists" : literary history in historiographical perspective
- "A topic that history will proudly record", or, What is the "history" in history painting?
- On the advantage and disadvantage of sentimental history for life
- Alternative histories in the public realm : familiarizing and defamiliarizing the past
- Epilogue : My Lai and moral luck, or, 'Tis forty years since.