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Autore: | Spencer Mark G. |
Titolo: | David Hume : historical thinker, historical writer / / edited by Mark G. Spencer |
Pubblicazione: | University Park, Pennsylvania : , : The Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2013] |
©2013 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
Disciplina: | 192 |
Soggetto topico: | HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General |
Soggetto geografico: | Great Britain Historiography |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Persona (resp. second.): | SpencerMark G. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Hume and ecclesiastical history : aims and contexts / Roger L. Emerson -- Artificial lives, providential history, and the apparent limits of sympathetic understanding / Jennifer A. Herdt -- "The spirit of liberty" : historical causation and political rhetoric in the age of Hume / Philip Hicks -- "The book seemed to sink into oblivion" : reading Hume's History in eighteenth-century Scotland / Mark Towsey -- Reading Hume's History of England : audience and authority in Georgian England / David Allan -- Medieval kingship and the making of modern civility : Hume's assessment of governance in the History of England / Jeffrey M. Suderman -- Hume and the end of history / F.L. van Holthoon -- David Hume as a philosopher of history / Claudia M. Schmidt -- Fact and fiction : memory and imagination in Hume's approach to history and literature / Timothy M. Costelloe -- Hume's historiographical imagination / Douglas Long -- The "most curious & important of all questions of erudition" : Hume's assessment of the populousness of ancient nations / M. A. Box and Michael Silverthorne. |
Sommario/riassunto: | "A transdisciplinary collection of essays focusing on David Hume as historian, and arguing that his "historical" and "philosophical" works are more intimately connected than scholars have often assumed"--Provided by publisher. |
Titolo autorizzato: | David Hume |
ISBN: | 0-271-06087-5 |
0-271-06245-2 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910479893103321 |
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