| A Companion to Enlightenment Historiography Contributor(s): Bourgault, Sparling |
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ISBN: 9004251855 ISBN-13: 9789004251854 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $239.40 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2013 |
| 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 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| 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. |