History and the Enlightenment [electronic resource] / Hugh Trevor-Roper ; [edited by John Robertson].

By: Trevor-Roper, H. R. (Hugh Redwald), 1914-2003Contributor(s): Robertson, John, 1951- | ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2010Description: xxvi, 314 pISBN: 9780300168402 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Historiography | Enlightenment -- Influence | History -- Philosophy | HistoriansGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 907.2 LOC classification: D13.2 | .T74 2010Online resources: Click to View
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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