Chapter 11 “The Hand of God”: Priestley on the End of History

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Enlightenment Histories in the Historical Age 1
4. Chapter 1 Voltaire’s Historical Sources: Models of Prefatory Certitude 11
5. Chapter 2 Charting the Circulation of Histories of England: A Computational Approach to Literary Borrowing in Enlightenment Britain 37
6. Chapter 3 “Flux and Reflux” in Hume’s Natural History of Religion (1757) 73
7. Chapter 4 Bridging Epistemology and Politics: Hume’s Tudor Volumes in His History of England 103
8. Chapter 5 Revisiting David Hume’s Review of the Rev. Robert Henry’s History of Great Britain: Illuminating Hume on Religion, Politics, and Modernity 129
9. Chapter 6 Hume’s Sceptical Enlightenment Approach to The History of Great Britain 153
10. Chapter 7 Ancient Models, Parallels, and Theory of Decadence in the Enlightenment: The Purposes of History in Gabriel Bonnot de Mably’s Works 183
11. Chapter 8 “Solid Grounds and Proper Vouchers”: Thomas Innes and the Truth of History 211
12. Chapter 9 Rewriting Scottish Enlightenment History: Haiti and the Boundaries of Progress 241
13. Chapter 10 “Subject Only to the Empire of Time”: Gibbon and Posterity 271
14. Chapter 11 “The Hand of God”: Priestley on the End of History 299
15. Notes on Contributors
16. Index