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

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Black, Jeremy, 1955- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, Office of Scholarly Publishing, Herman B Wells Library, [2019]
Subjects:
1700-1799
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
Historiography.
Great Britain > History > 18th century > Historiography.
Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siècle > Historiographie.
Great Britain.
History.
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.

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