Charting the past : the historical worlds of eighteenth-century England /
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Bloomington, Indiana :
Indiana University Press, Office of Scholarly Publishing, Herman B Wells Library,
[2019]
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.