David Hume : historical thinker, historical writer /
Spencer, Mark G.,editor of compilation.
"A transdisciplinary collection of essays focusing on David Hume as historian, and arguing that his "historical" and "philosophical" works are more intimately connected than scholars have often assumed"--Provided by publisher.
"A transdisciplinary collection of essays focusing on David Hume as historian, and arguing that his "historical" and "philosophical" works are more intimately connected than scholars have often assumed"--Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-266) and index.
Hume and ecclesiastical history : aims and contexts / Roger L. Emerson -- Artificial lives, providential history, and the apparent limits of sympathetic understanding / Jennifer A. Herdt -- "The spirit of liberty" : historical causation and political rhetoric in the age of Hume / Philip Hicks -- "The book seemed to sink into oblivion" : reading Hume's History in eighteenth-century Scotland / Mark Towsey -- Reading Hume's History of England : audience and authority in Georgian England / David Allan -- Medieval kingship and the making of modern civility : Hume's assessment of governance in the History of England / Jeffrey M. Suderman -- Hume and the end of history / F.L. van Holthoon -- David Hume as a philosopher of history / Claudia M. Schmidt -- Fact and fiction : memory and imagination in Hume's approach to history and literature / Timothy M. Costelloe -- Hume's historiographical imagination / Douglas Long -- The "most curious & important of all questions of erudition" : Hume's assessment of the populousness of ancient nations / M. A. Box and Michael Silverthorne.
Hume, David, 1711-1776
Hume, David, 1711-1776.