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Charting the Past - The Historical Worlds of Eighteenth-Century England

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Informationen zum Autor Jeremy M. Black Klappentext Eighteenth-century England was a place of enlightenment and revolution: new ideas abounded in science, politics, transportation, commerce, religion, and the arts. But even as England propelled itself into the future, it was preoccupied with notions of its past. Jeremy Black considers the interaction of history with knowledge and culture in eighteenth-century England and shows how this engagement with the past influenced English historical writing. The past was used as a tool to illustrate the contemporary religious, social, and political debates that shaped the revolutionary advances of the era. Black reveals this "present-centered" historical writing to be so valued and influential in the eighteenth-century that its importance is greatly underappreciated in current considerations of the period. In his customarily vivid and sweeping approach, Black takes readers from print shop to church pew, courtroom to painter's studio to show how historical writing influenced the era, which in turn gave birth to the modern world. Zusammenfassung In his customarily vivid and sweeping approach, Black takes readers from print shop to church pew, courtroom to painter's studio to show how historical writing influenced the era, which in turn gave birth to the modern world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface List of Abbreviations 1. The World of History 2. Purposes, Narratives, Methods 3. A Historical World of Partisan Strife: The Early Eighteenth Century 4. Contrasting Approaches: Burnet and Astell 5. The Unstable Past: Dissenters and History 6. History Suited to Mid-Century Struggle 7. From the New Reign to the Crisis of Empire, 1760-1776 8. Empire as Historical Narrative: Gibbon and the Descent of Civilizations 9. History in the Age of Burke Conclusions: Bringing the Past into the Present Selected Further Reading Index

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Authors Jeremy Black
Publisher Indiana University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 31.01.2019
 
EAN 9780253037770
ISBN 978-0-253-03777-0
No. of pages 298
Series Indiana University Press (IPS)
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries
Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous

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