Narratives of Enlightenment is an interdisciplinary study of cosmopolitan approaches to the past. It reappraises the work of five of the most important narrative historians of the century - Voltaire, David Hume, William Robertson, Edward Gibbon and the historian of the American Revolution, David Ramsay - in the context of political and national debates in France, Scotland, Engl...(展开全部)

Prasenjit Duara offers the first systematic account of the relationship between the nation-state, nationalism, and the concept of linear history. Focusing primarily on China and including discussion of India, Duara argues that many historians of postcolonial nation-states have adopted a linear, evolutionary history of the Enlightenment/colonial model. As a result, they have wri...(展开全部)

Prasenjit Duara offers the first systematic account of the relationship between the nation-state, nationalism, and the concept of linear history. Focusing primarily on China and including discussion of India, Duara argues that many historians of postcolonial nation-states have adopted a linear, evolutionary history of the Enlightenment/colonial model. As a result, they have wri...(展开全部)

Featuring extraordinary personal accounts, this book provides a unique window through which to examine some of the great political changes of our time, and reveals both the potential and the challenge of narrating the political world. Molly Andrews' novel analysis of the relationship between history and biography presents in-depth case studies of four different countries, offer...(展开全部)

Featuring extraordinary personal accounts, this book provides a unique window through which to examine some of the great political changes of our time, and reveals both the potential and the challenge of narrating the political world. Molly Andrews' novel analysis of the relationship between history and biography presents in-depth case studies of four different countries, offer...(展开全部)

How the modern world understood the ancient Greeks and why they matter today. The study of ancient Greece has been central to Western conceptions of history since the Renaissance. The Muse of History traces the shifting patterns of this preoccupation in the last three centuries, in which successive generations have reinterpreted the Greeks in the light of their contemporary wor...(展开全部)

文森佐·费罗内(Vincenzo Ferrone)，意大利著名历史学家，启蒙运动研究权威学者，都灵大学近代史教授，法兰西学院和普林斯顿高等研究院访问学者。1954年生于卢切拉，先后师从意大利史学家弗朗哥·文丘里和美国史学家玛格丽特·雅各布。主要研究领域为欧洲旧制度与启蒙运动史，目前集中研究人权史和启蒙文化中现代政治语言的出现及其对后世的影响。费罗内教授著述颇丰，除本书外，代表著作还有《意大利启蒙运动的思想根源》(1982)、《启蒙政治》(2003)、《人权史》(2014)等。 马涛，武汉大学哲学学院外国哲学专业博士在读。 曾允，武汉大学哲学学院外国哲学专业博士在读。

The formation of the modern state, the rise of capitalism, the Renaissance and Reformation, the scientific revolution and the Age of Enlightenment - all these have been credited to the "early modern" period. Nearly everything about its history remains controversial, but one thing is certain: it left a rich and provocative legacy of political ideas unmatched in Western history. ...(展开全部)

The third edition of a text from the 1960s, this work has been revised and expanded throughout with three new chapters, one on Savonarola, one on Henry More and Ralph Cudworth, and one on Pascal. This authoritative treatment of the theme of scepticism and its historical impact should appeal to scholars and students of early modern history now as much as ever.