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Author Phillips, Mark, 1946-

Title On historical distance / Mark Salber Phillips.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource.
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Physical Medium polychrome
Series Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-C
Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-C.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : rethinking historical distance : from doctrine to heuristic -- Machiavelli between history and chronicle -- A study in contrasts : Machiavelli, Guicciardini, and the idea of example -- "The most illustrious philosopher and historian of the age" : Hume and the balances of enlightenment history -- "What sympathy then touches every human heart!" : emotional identification in enlightenment and romantic histories -- Hundred Scottish ministers write the history of everyday life : contrasting distances in Sinclair's "Statistical account of Scotland" -- Past and present : contrastive narratives in the romantic age -- "The very web and texture of society as it really exists" : literary history in historiographical perspective -- "A topic that history will proudly record", or, What is the "history" in history painting? -- On the advantage and disadvantage of sentimental history for life -- Alternative histories in the public realm : familiarizing and defamiliarizing the past -- Epilogue : My Lai and moral luck, or, 'Tis forty years since.
Summary Conceptions of distance are foundational to historical thought but Mark Salber Phillips gives the idea new subtlety and meaning. He argues that distance is a matter not just of time and space but also of form, affect, ideology, and understanding.
Awards Canadian Historical Association's Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, 2014
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Language English.
Subject Historiography -- Philosophy.
Historiography -- Philosophy.
History -- Philosophy.
History -- Philosophy.
HISTORY -- Historiography.
HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Phillips, Mark, 1946- On historical distance. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013] 9780300140378 (DLC) 2012037687 (OCoLC)812081154
ISBN 9780300195255 (electronic book)
0300195257 (electronic book)
9780300140378
0300140371
Standard No. 40022251345