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Style in history / Peter Gay.
Record no.:
3684
Author:
Gay, Peter, 1923-2015.;
Publisher:
New York :: Basic Books,
Year:
[1974]
Description:
xiii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Subject:
Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794.;
Ranke, Leopold von, 1795-1886.;
Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859.;
Burckhardt, Jacob, 1818-1897.;
Historiography.;
Notes:
Gift ; Nagle Library MacLeod Collection copy donated by Emeritus Professor Roy MacLeod.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-238).
Type:
Monograph
ISBN:
0465083048;
Abstract:
Introduction:

Style -from manner to matter --

1.

Gibbon: a modern cynic among ancient politicians --

2.

Ranke: the respectful critic --

3.

Macaulay: intellectual voluptuary --

4.

Burckhardt:
the poet of truth --

Conclusion:

On Style in history.
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