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A Companion to Enlightenment Historiography
Contributor(s): Bourgault, Sparling
ISBN: 9004251855     ISBN-13: 9789004251854
Publisher: Brill
OUR PRICE:   $239.40  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: June 2013
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | Europe - General
- History | Historiography
- History | Modern - 19th Century
Dewey: 907.204
LCCN: 2013011760
Series: Brill's Companions to European History
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.4" W x 9.5" (2.07 lbs) 520 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 18th Century
- Chronological Period - 19th Century
 
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Publisher Description:
A Companion to Enlightenment Historiography 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.
Contributors are Robert Mankin, Simon Kow, Jeffrey Smitten, Rebecca Kingston, S ofra Pierse, Bertrand Binoche, Donald Phillip Verene, Ulrich Muhlack, David Allan, Noelle Gallagher, Fran ois-Emmanu l Boucher, Sandra Rudnick Luft, Sophie Bourgault, C. Ak a Ata , and Robert Sparling.