On historical distance / Mark Salber Phillips.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phillips, Mark, 1946-

Series:

Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.

The Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historiography--Philosophy.

Historiography.

History--Philosophy.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ( xvii, 293 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Conceptions of distance are foundational to historical thought but Mark Salber Phillips gives the idea new subtlety and meaning. He argues that distance is a matter not just of time and space but also of form, affect, ideology, and understanding.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction. Rethinking Historical Distance: From Doctrine to Heuristic""; ""Part One: Circa 1500: Machiavelli in the Florentine Tradition""; ""ONE: Machiavelli Between History and Chronicle""; ""TWO: A Study in Contrasts: Machiavelli, Guicciardini, and the Idea of Example""; ""Part Two: Circa 1800: History and Its Genres in the Long Eighteenth Century""; ""THREE: “The Most Illustrious Philosopher and Historian of the Age�: Hume and the Balances of Enlightenment History""

""FOUR: “What Sympathy Then Touches Every Human Heart!�: Emotional Identification in Enlightenment and Romantic Histories""""FIVE: Nine Hundred Scottish Ministers Write the History of Everyday Life: Contrasting Distances in Sinclair�s “Statistical Account of Scotland�""; ""SIX: Past and Present: Contrastive Narratives in the Romantic Age""; ""SEVEN: “The Very Web and Texture of Society as It Really Exists�: Literary History in Historiographical Perspective""; ""EIGHT: “A Topic That History Will Proudly Record�; or, What Is the “History� in History Painting?""

""Part Three: Circa 1968: Sentimental Histories""""NINE: On the Advantage and Disadvantage of Sentimental History for Life""; ""TEN: Alternative Histories in the Public Realm: Familiarizing and Defamiliarizing the Past""; ""Epilogue. My Lai and Moral Luck; or, �Tis Forty Years Since""; ""Notes""; ""Index"" Color plates""

Notes:

Canadian Historical Association's Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, 2014

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780300195255

0-300-19525-7