Narratives of Enlightenment: Cosmopolitan History from Voltaire to Gibbon

by Karen O'Brien

Book Overview

Narratives of Enlightenment is an interdisciplinary study of cosmopolitan approaches to the past. It reappraises the work of five of the most important narrative historians of the century - Voltaire, David Hume, William Robertson, Edward Gibbon and the historian of the American Revolution, David Ramsay - in the context of political and national debates in France, Scotland, England and America; and it investigates the nature and degree of their intellectual...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521465338
• ISBN13: 9780521465335
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.4"