| Style in History Revised Edition Contributor(s): Gay, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393305589 ISBN-13: 9780393305586 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $20.85 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1991 Annotation: In this original and lucid guide to the proper reading of Gibbon, Ranke, Macaulay, and Burckhardt--great historians who were also great stylists--Peter Gay demonstrates that style is an invaluable clue to the historian's insight. |
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| BISAC Categories: - History | Historiography |
| Dewey: 907.202 |
| LCCN: 00000000 |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5" W x 8.05" (0.61 lbs) 256 pages |
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| Publisher Description: What does an historian's style reveal? In this original and lucid guide to the proper reading of Gibbon, Ranke, Macaulay, and Burckhardt--great historians who were also great stylists--Peter Gay demonstrates that, style is an invaluable clue to the historian's insight. Thus, for Peter Gay, style is the key to culture, and the "truth" of history--as it helps to define that culture--can only be fully understood through an objective and thorough analysis of all its elements. |
Contributor Bio(s): Gay, Peter: - Peter Gay (1923--2015) was the author of more than twenty-five books, including the National Book Award winner The Enlightenment, the best-selling Weimar Culture, and the widely translated Freud: A Life for Our Time. |