Neoclassical history and English culture : from Clarendon to Hume /
This book shows how our idea of history was shaped by historians and their readers in eighteenth-century England. Philip Hicks reinterprets the historical writing of the early-modern era as a vibrant clash between ancient models for historical composition and a modernizing culture characterized by p...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
St. Martin's Press,
1996
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| Series: | Studies in modern history (Macmillan Press)
Studies in modern history (St. Martin's Press) |
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