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Jeremy Black's Charting the Past is a useful book....For someone new to the field, wishing a guide through the immense thickets of historical writing and its assorted contexts, Black has provided a good start, and fodder for investigation of some of the more obscure writers he usefully brings to light.

-- Daniel Woolf * H-Net.org *

Charting the Past is an enjoyable and informative read that enriches an understanding of eighteenth-century England and serves as a useful primer for further study and research.

* Journal of British Studies *

Table of Contents

Preface


List of Abbreviations


1. The World of History


2. Purposes, Narratives, Methods


3. A Historical World of Partisan Strife: The Early Eighteenth Century


4. Contrasting Approaches: Burnet and Astell


5. The Unstable Past: Dissenters and History


6. History Suited to Mid-Century Struggle


7. From the New Reign to the Crisis of Empire, 1760-1776


8. Empire as Historical Narrative: Gibbon and the Descent of Civilizations


9. History in the Age of Burke


Conclusions: Bringing the Past into the Present


Selected Further Reading


Index

Charting the Past

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      Publisher Indiana University Press
      Published 12 October 2018
      ISBN-13 9780253037770
      978-0253037770
      ISBN-10 0253037778
      Also in:
      European history General and world history Books by Jeremy Black

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review

      Jeremy Black's Charting the Past is a useful book....For someone new to the field, wishing a guide through the immense thickets of historical writing and its assorted contexts, Black has provided a good start, and fodder for investigation of some of the more obscure writers he usefully brings to light.

      -- Daniel Woolf * H-Net.org *

      Charting the Past is an enjoyable and informative read that enriches an understanding of eighteenth-century England and serves as a useful primer for further study and research.

      * Journal of British Studies *

      Table of Contents

      Preface


      List of Abbreviations


      1. The World of History


      2. Purposes, Narratives, Methods


      3. A Historical World of Partisan Strife: The Early Eighteenth Century


      4. Contrasting Approaches: Burnet and Astell


      5. The Unstable Past: Dissenters and History


      6. History Suited to Mid-Century Struggle


      7. From the New Reign to the Crisis of Empire, 1760-1776


      8. Empire as Historical Narrative: Gibbon and the Descent of Civilizations


      9. History in the Age of Burke


      Conclusions: Bringing the Past into the Present


      Selected Further Reading


      Index

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