David Hume
David Hume historical thinker, historical writer / [electronic resource] :
edited by Mark G. Spencer.
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2013]
- 1 online resource (pages cm)
- UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Hume and ecclesiastical history : aims and contexts / Roger L. Emerson -- Artificial lives, providential history, and the apparent limits of sympathetic understanding / Jennifer A. Herdt -- "The spirit of liberty" : historical causation and political rhetoric in the age of Hume / Philip Hicks -- "The book seemed to sink into oblivion" : reading Hume's History in eighteenth-century Scotland / Mark Towsey -- Reading Hume's History of England : audience and authority in Georgian England / David Allan -- Medieval kingship and the making of modern civility : Hume's assessment of governance in the History of England / Jeffrey M. Suderman -- Hume and the end of history / F.L. van Holthoon -- David Hume as a philosopher of history / Claudia M. Schmidt -- Fact and fiction : memory and imagination in Hume's approach to history and literature / Timothy M. Costelloe -- Hume's historiographical imagination / Douglas Long -- The "most curious & important of all questions of erudition" : Hume's assessment of the populousness of ancient nations / M. A. Box and Michael Silverthorne.
9780271060873
Hume, David, 1711-1776. History of England.
Hume, David, 1711-1776 --Criticism and interpretation.
England--Historiography.
Great Britain--Historiography.
Electronic books.
DA759.7.H86 / D38 2013
942.0072/02
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Hume and ecclesiastical history : aims and contexts / Roger L. Emerson -- Artificial lives, providential history, and the apparent limits of sympathetic understanding / Jennifer A. Herdt -- "The spirit of liberty" : historical causation and political rhetoric in the age of Hume / Philip Hicks -- "The book seemed to sink into oblivion" : reading Hume's History in eighteenth-century Scotland / Mark Towsey -- Reading Hume's History of England : audience and authority in Georgian England / David Allan -- Medieval kingship and the making of modern civility : Hume's assessment of governance in the History of England / Jeffrey M. Suderman -- Hume and the end of history / F.L. van Holthoon -- David Hume as a philosopher of history / Claudia M. Schmidt -- Fact and fiction : memory and imagination in Hume's approach to history and literature / Timothy M. Costelloe -- Hume's historiographical imagination / Douglas Long -- The "most curious & important of all questions of erudition" : Hume's assessment of the populousness of ancient nations / M. A. Box and Michael Silverthorne.
9780271060873
Hume, David, 1711-1776. History of England.
Hume, David, 1711-1776 --Criticism and interpretation.
England--Historiography.
Great Britain--Historiography.
Electronic books.
DA759.7.H86 / D38 2013
942.0072/02