History and the Enlightenment
By: Hugh Trevor-Roper ; [edited by John Robertson].
Contributors: Robertson, John, 1951-
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780300139341
Subjects: Historiography; Enlightenment -- Influence; History -- Philosophy; Historians
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The historical philosophy of the Enlightenment; title: The Scottish Enlightenment; title: Pietro Giannone and Great Britain; title: Dimitrie Cantemir's Ottoman history and its reception in England; title: From deism to history: Conyers Middleton; title: David Hume, historian; title: The idea of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire; title: Gibbon and the publication of the Decline and fall of the Roman Empire 1776-1976; title: Gibbon's last project; title: The romantic movement and the study of history; title: Lord Macaulay: the history of England; title: Thomas Carlyle's historical philosophy; title: Jacob Burckhardt.