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1 online resource |
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Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-C |
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Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-C
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
Conceptions of distance are foundational to historical thought but Mark Salber Phillips gives the idea new subtlety and meaning. He argues that distance is a matter not just of time and space but also of form, affect, ideology, and understanding |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Canadian Historical Association's Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, 2014 |
| Subject |
Historiography -- Philosophy
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History -- Philosophy.
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HISTORY -- Historiography.
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HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
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Historiography -- Philosophy
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History -- Philosophy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012037687 |
| ISBN |
9780300195255 |
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0300195257 |
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