History and the Enlightenment

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Main Author: Trevor-Roper, H. R. (Hugh Redwald), 1914-2003
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Robertson, John, 1951-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2010.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • The historical philosophy of the Enlightenment
  • The Scottish Enlightenment
  • Pietro Giannone and Great Britain
  • Dimitrie Cantemir's Ottoman history and its reception in England
  • From deism to history: Conyers Middleton
  • David Hume, historian
  • The idea of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire
  • Gibbon and the publication of the Decline and fall of the Roman Empire 1776-1976
  • Gibbon's last project
  • The romantic movement and the study of history
  • Lord Macaulay: the history of England
  • Thomas Carlyle's historical philosophy
  • Jacob Burckhardt.