Frontmatter

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Editor’s Introduction vi
4. Editorial Note xxiii
5. Acknowledgments xxv
6. 1. The Historical Philosophy of the Enlightenment 1
7. 2. The Scottish Enlightenment 17
8. 3. Pietro Giannone and Great Britain 34
9. 4. Dimitrie Cantemir’s Ottoman History and its Reception in England 54
10. 5. From Deism to History: Conyers Middleton 71
11. 6. David Hume, Historian 120
12. 7. The Idea of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 129
13. 8. Gibbon and the Publication of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1776–1976 144
14. 9. Gibbon’s Last Project 161
15. 10. The Romantic Movement and the Study of History 176
16. 11. Lord Macaulay: The History of England 192
17. 12. Thomas Carlyle’s Historical Philosophy 223
18. 13. Jacob Burckhardt 246
19. Appendix: A Guide to Later Scholarship 266
20. Notes 275
21. Index 305