UID:
almafu_9960962638002883
Format:
1 online resource ( xvii, 293 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) :
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illustrations (some color)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780300195255
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0-300-19525-7
Series Statement:
The Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history
Content:
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.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction. Rethinking Historical Distance: From Doctrine to Heuristic""; ""Part One: Circa 1500: Machiavelli in the Florentine Tradition""; ""ONE: Machiavelli Between History and Chronicle""; ""TWO: A Study in Contrasts: Machiavelli, Guicciardini, and the Idea of Example""; ""Part Two: Circa 1800: History and Its Genres in the Long Eighteenth Century""; ""THREE: “The Most Illustrious Philosopher and Historian of the Age�: Hume and the Balances of Enlightenment History""
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""FOUR: “What Sympathy Then Touches Every Human Heart!�: Emotional Identification in Enlightenment and Romantic Histories""""FIVE: Nine Hundred Scottish Ministers Write the History of Everyday Life: Contrasting Distances in Sinclair�s “Statistical Account of Scotland�""; ""SIX: Past and Present: Contrastive Narratives in the Romantic Age""; ""SEVEN: “The Very Web and Texture of Society as It Really Exists�: Literary History in Historiographical Perspective""; ""EIGHT: “A Topic That History Will Proudly Record�; or, What Is the “History� in History Painting?""
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""Part Three: Circa 1968: Sentimental Histories""""NINE: On the Advantage and Disadvantage of Sentimental History for Life""; ""TEN: Alternative Histories in the Public Realm: Familiarizing and Defamiliarizing the Past""; ""Epilogue. My Lai and Moral Luck; or, �Tis Forty Years Since""; ""Notes""; ""Index"" Color plates""
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-300-14037-1
Language:
English
URL:
Yale scholarship online
