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" On historical distance / "
Mark Salber Phillips
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BL
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582282
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b411501
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| Main Entry
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Phillips, Mark,1946-
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On historical distance /\ Mark Salber Phillips
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| Publication Statement
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New Haven :: Yale University Press,, c2013
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xvii, 293 p., [8] p. of plates :: ill. ;; 25 cm
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9780300140378 (alk. paper)
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: 0300140371 (alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-281) and index
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| Contents
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Introduction : rethinking historical distance : from doctrine to heuristic -- Machiavelli between history and chronicle -- A study in contrasts : Machiavelli, Guicciardini, and the idea of example -- "The most illustrious philosopher and historian of the age" : Hume and the balances of enlightenment history -- "What sympathy then touches every human heart!" : emotional identification in enlightenment and romantic histories -- Hundred Scottish ministers write the history of everyday life : contrasting distances in Sinclair's "Statistical account of Scotland" -- Past and present : contrastive narratives in the romantic age -- "The very web and texture of society as it really exists" : literary history in historiographical perspective -- "A topic that history will proudly record", or, What is the "history" in history painting? -- On the advantage and disadvantage of sentimental history for life -- Alternative histories in the public realm : familiarizing and defamiliarizing the past -- Epilogue : My Lai and moral luck, or, 'Tis forty years since
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Historiography-- Philosophy
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History-- Philosophy
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907.2
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D16.8.P42 2013
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