Judgements on History and Historians

AvJacob Burckhardt

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Engelska, 2016

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Western Civilisation was in its pomp when Jacob Burckhardt delivered his Judgements on History and Historians; European Empires spanned the globe, while the modern age was being forged in the nationalist revolutions of 1848. As a tutor to the young Friedrich Nietzsche as well as one of the first historians to take 'culture' as his subject rather th

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Utgivningsdatum:2016-02-01
Språk:Engelska
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781136775741
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Serie:Routledge Classics

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Allmän historia och världshistoria inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897), was born in Basel in Switzerland where he lived and worked for virtually the whole of his life. The author of The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy, he is widely regarded as the father of Cultural History.

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'Unlike other 'universal historians,' Burckhardt never closed his mind to new possibilities. He imposed no system on history. He believed, with all the real 'liberals,' ultimately in the freedom of the human will.' - Hugh Trevor-Roper 'Unlike other universal historians Burckhardt never closed his mind to new possibilities... Some tools for thinking, and the cultivation of an attitude of respect and wonder towards the heroic people who shaped history are what you get from this book.' - Andrew Vass, SATH: History Teaching Review

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction. Translator's Preface 1.Antiquity 2. The Middle Ages 3. History from 1450 to 1598 4. History of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Ceturies 5. The Age of Revolution