Publication

2013 - BRILL

Language

English

Word Count

127,500 words, Guess

Page Count

510 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139789004251854
  • ISBN-109004251855
  • Better World Books9789004251854
  • Open LibraryOL34376772M

Classifications

  • LCCD13

Description

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.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Companion to Enlightenment HistoriographyBRILL2013

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