TY - BOOK AU - Phillips,Mark TI - On historical distanceMark Salber Phillips SN - 9780300195255 AV - D16 .O545 2013 PY - 2013/// CY - New Haven PB - Yale University Press KW - Historiography KW - Philosophy KW - History KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=573610&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -