| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Brill's Companions to European History ; 3
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Brill's companions to European history ; 3.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Contents |
pt. I. Eighteenth-century historians -- pt. II. Themes and regional contexts. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Enlightenment.
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Enlightenment. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Bourgault, Sophie.
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Sparling, Robert Alan, 1975-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Companion to Enlightenment historiography. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013 9789004251854 (DLC) 2013011760 (OCoLC)833403306 |
| ISBN |
9789004251847 (electronic book) |
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9004251847 (electronic book) |
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1299691013 (e-book) |
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9781299691018 (e-book) |
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9789004251854 |
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9004251855 |
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