History and the Enlightenment /
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2010]
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Table of Contents:
- The historical philosophy of the Enlightenment
- The Scottish Enlightenment
- Pietro Giannone and Great Britain
- Dimitrie Cantemir's Ottoman history and its reception in England
- From deism to history: Conyers Middleton
- David Hume, historian
- The idea of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire
- Gibbon and the publication of the Decline and fall of the Roman Empire 1776-1976
- Gibbon's last project
- The romantic movement and the study of history
- Lord Macaulay: the history of England
- Thomas Carlyle's historical philosophy
- Jacob Burckhardt.