David Hume [electronic resource] : historical thinker, historical writer / edited by Mark G. Spencer.

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.

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