Charting the past : the historical worlds of eighteenth-century England /
Black, Jeremy, 1955-
Charting the past : the historical worlds of eighteenth-century England / Jeremy Black. - Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
The world of history -- Purposes, narratives, methods -- A historical world of partisan strife: the early eighteenth century -- Contrasting approaches: Burnet and Astell -- The unstable past: dissenters and history -- History suited to midcentury struggle -- From the new reign to the crisis of empire, 1760-76 -- Empire as historical narrative: Gibbon and the Descent of civilizations -- History in the age of Burke.
9780253037800 9780253037794
2018036457
Electronic Books.
DA480 / .C437 2019
Charting the past : the historical worlds of eighteenth-century England / Jeremy Black. - Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
The world of history -- Purposes, narratives, methods -- A historical world of partisan strife: the early eighteenth century -- Contrasting approaches: Burnet and Astell -- The unstable past: dissenters and history -- History suited to midcentury struggle -- From the new reign to the crisis of empire, 1760-76 -- Empire as historical narrative: Gibbon and the Descent of civilizations -- History in the age of Burke.
9780253037800 9780253037794
2018036457
Electronic Books.
DA480 / .C437 2019