Style in history
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Style in history
(A Norton paperback)
Norton, 1988
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Style in history : Gibbon, Ranke, Macaulay, Burckhardt
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Originally published: New York : Basic Books, 1974
Bibliography: p. 219-238
Includes index
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What does an historian's style reveal? In this original and lucid guide to the proper reading of Gibbon, Ranke, Macaulay, and Burckhardt-great historians who were also great stylists-Peter Gay demonstrates that, style is an invaluable clue to the historian's insight. Thus, for Peter Gay, style is the key to culture, and the "truth" of history-as it helps to define that culture-can only be fully understood through an objective and thorough analysis of all its elements.
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