David Hume : historical thinker, historical writer / / edited by Mark G. Spencer
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| Autore: |
Spencer Mark G.
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| Titolo: |
David Hume : historical thinker, historical writer / / edited by Mark G. Spencer
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| 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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