عنوان

On historical distance /

(Number (ISBN

0300140371 (alk. paper)

(Number (ISBN

9780300140378 (alk. paper)

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b411501

Title Proper

On historical distance /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Mark Salber Phillips

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New Haven :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Yale University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

c2013

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xvii, 293 p., [8] p. of plates :

Other Physical Details

ill. ;

Dimensions

25 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-281) and index

Text of Note

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

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Historiography-- Philosophy

History-- Philosophy

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Edition

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Phillips, Mark,1946-

Date of Transaction

20130612085843.0

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[Book]

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