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Narratives of enlightenment: cosmopolitan history from Voltaire to Gibbon
Karen O'Brien
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgements and author's note (page xi)
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1 Introduction: cosmopolitanism, narrative, history (page 1)
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2 Voltaire's neoclassical poetics of history (page 21)
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3 European contexts in Hume's History of England (page 56)
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4 William Robertson to the rescue of Scottish history (page 93)
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5 Robertson on the triumph of Europe and its empires (page 129)
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6 Emulation and revival: Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (page 167)
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7 David Ramsay's sceptical history of the American Revolution (page 204)
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Afterword (page 234)
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Bibliography
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Selected secondary studies of the work of individual historians (page 239)
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Selected general studies of historical writing in the eighteenth century (page 242)
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Index (page 244)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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MP | 98.1 (Aug. 2000): 90-93 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/439314 |
RES | 50.197 (Feb. 1999): 110-111 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/517789 |
MLR | 94.2 (Apr. 1999): 500-501 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3737136 |
AHR | 104.1 (Feb. 1999): 145-146 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/2650187 |
ESC | 34.1 )Fall 2000): 138-141 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/30054111 |
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Published: c1997
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- 9780521465335 (hardcover)
- 9781139085700 (ebook)