| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 300 pages) |
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nat Britons |
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Eighteenth century |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The world of history -- Purposes, narratives, methods -- A historical world of partisan strife : the early eighteenth century -- Contrasting approaches : Burnet and Astell -- The unstable past : dissenters and history -- History suited to midcentury struggle -- From the new reign to the crisis of empire, 1760-76 -- Empire as historical narrative : Gibbon and the Descent of civilizations -- History in the age of Burke -- Conclusions : bringing the past into the present. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Great Britain -- History -- 18th century -- Historiography.
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
Historiography. |
| Chronological Term |
1700-1799 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Black, Jeremy, 1955- Charting the past. Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2019] 9780253037763 (DLC) 2018035757 (OCoLC)1047528638 |
| ISBN |
9780253037800 (electronic book) |
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0253037808 (electronic book) |
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9780253037794 (electronic book) |
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0253037794 (electronic book) |
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9780253037763 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780253037770 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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