Charting the Past (eBook)
298 Seiten
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-03779-4 (ISBN)
1. This book argues that in the 18th century Britain used its present as a way of interpreting the significance of its past. One can easily trace this way of viewing history straight through to the recent Brexit vote. This book shows how and why this process began.
2. Well-known and highly regarded author Jeremy Black argues persuasively for a reconsideration of how we think of the 18th century in England. This was a key time in English (and world) history, and has clear and timely ramifications to world political dynamics today.
3. This is a broad, accessibly written work that will appeal to historians working in a number of fields as well as younger undergraduates and history buffs among the wider public.
Eighteenth-century England was a place of enlightenment and revolution: new ideas abounded in science, politics, transportation, commerce, religion, and the arts. But even as England propelled itself into the future, it was preoccupied with notions of its past. Jeremy Black considers the interaction of history with knowledge and culture in eighteenth-century England and shows how this engagement with the past influenced English historical writing. The past was used as a tool to illustrate the contemporary religious, social, and political debates that shaped the revolutionary advances of the era. Black reveals this "e;present-centered"e; historical writing to be so valued and influential in the eighteenth-century that its importance is greatly underappreciated in current considerations of the period. In his customarily vivid and sweeping approach, Black takes readers from print shop to church pew, courtroom to painter's studio to show how historical writing influenced the era, which in turn gave birth to the modern world.
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Jeremy Black is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. He is author of many books, including Plotting Power: Strategy in the Eighteenth Century; Clio's Battles: Historiography in Practice; War and Technology; and Geographies of an Imperial Power: The British World, 1688–1815. Black is a recipient of the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize of the Society for Military History.
Preface
List of Abbreviations
1. The World of History
2. Purposes, Narratives, Methods
3. A Historical World of Partisan Strife: The Early Eighteenth Century
4. Contrasting Approaches: Burnet and Astell
5. The Unstable Past: Dissenters and History
6. History Suited to Mid-Century Struggle
7. From the New Reign to the Crisis of Empire, 1760-1776
8. Empire as Historical Narrative: Gibbon and the Descent of Civilizations
9. History in the Age of Burke
Conclusions: Bringing the Past into the Present
Selected Further Reading
Index
Zusatzinfo | 0 b&w |
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Verlagsort | Bloomington |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 150 x 150 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte |
Schlagworte | 1700s • 18th century • ART • Astell • bringing the past into the present • Britain • Burke • Burnet • Charting the Past • Civilization • dissenters • Eighteenth Century • Empire • England • Gibbon • Historic • historical framework • Historical Writing • History • history of a nation • history of england • history of England, England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, history of the world, historical framework, partisan, partisan strife, Eighteenth Century, 1700s, Burnet, Astell, dissenters, mid-century struggle, reign, king • History of the World • Indiana University Press • Ireland • IUP • IUP, IU Press, Indiana University Press, Jeremy Black, Charting the Past, UK, United Kingdom, past, history, historic, written history, self-narration, national reflection, national history, history of a nation • IU Press • Jeremy Black • King • Literature • mid-century struggle • Monarchy • music • National history • national reflection • Partisan • partisan strife • PAST • Queen • queen, monarchy, self-government, empire, Gibbon, civilization, Burke, bringing the past into the present, historical writing, 18th century, Britain, art, literature, music • queen, monarchy, self-government, empire, Gibbon, civilization, Burke, bringing the past into the present, historical writing, 18th century, Britain, art, literature, music • reign • Scotland • self-government • Self-Narration • UK • United Kingdom • Wales • written history |
ISBN-10 | 0-253-03779-4 / 0253037794 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-253-03779-4 / 9780253037794 |
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