Phillips, Mark,  1946- <br/><br/>
On historical distanceMark Salber Phillips. 

 - New Haven :  Yale University Press,  (c)2013. 
 - 1 online resource. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction : rethinking historical distance : from doctrine to heuristic --  Machiavelli between history and chronicle --  A study in contrasts : Machiavelli, Guicciardini, and the idea of example --  "The most illustrious philosopher and historian of the age" : Hume and the balances of enlightenment history --  "What sympathy then touches every human heart!" : emotional identification in enlightenment and romantic histories --  Hundred Scottish ministers write the history of everyday life : contrasting distances in Sinclair's "Statistical account of Scotland" --  Past and present : contrastive narratives in the romantic age --  "The very web and texture of society as it really exists" : literary history in historiographical perspective --  "A topic that history will proudly record", or, What is the "history" in history painting? --  On the advantage and disadvantage of sentimental history for life --  Alternative histories in the public realm : familiarizing and defamiliarizing the past --  Epilogue : My Lai and moral luck, or, 'Tis forty years since. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780300195255 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Historiography--Philosophy.<br/>History--Philosophy.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>D16  / .O545 2013