A companion to Enlightenment historiography

This book provides a survey of the most important historians and historiographical debates in the long eighteenth century, examining these debates' stylistic, philosophical and political significance. The chapters, many of which were specially commissioned for this volume, offer a mixture of ac...

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Other Authors: Bourgault, Sophie (-), Sparling, Robert Alan, 1975-
Format: Book
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill 2013
Series:Brill's companions to European history ; 3
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Summary:This book provides a survey of the most important historians and historiographical debates in the long eighteenth century, examining these debates' stylistic, philosophical and political significance. The chapters, many of which were specially commissioned for this volume, offer a mixture of accessible introduction and original interpretive argument; they will thus appeal both to the scholar of the period and the more general reader. Part I considers Gibbon, Hume, Robertson, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Herder and Vico. Part II explores wider themes of national and thematic context: English, Scottish, French and German Enlightenment historians are discussed, as are the concepts of historical progress, secularism, the origins of historicism and the deployments of Greek and Roman antiquity within 18th century historiography.
Physical Description:ix, 509 p. ; 25 cm
Bibliography:Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice
ISBN:9789004251854