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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Rethinking Historical Distance: From Doctrine to Heuristic
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Part One Circa 1500: Machiavelli in the Florentine Tradition -
1 Machiavelli Between History and Chronicle -
2 A Study in Contrasts -
Part Two Circa 1800: History and Its Genres in the Long Eighteenth Century -
3 “The Most Illustrious Philosopher and Historian of the Age” -
4 “What Sympathy then Touches Every Human Heart!” -
5 Nine Hundred Scottish Ministers Write the History of Everyday Life -
6 Past and Present -
7 “The Very Web and Texture of Society as it Really Exists” -
8 “Atopic that History Will Proudly Record”; or, What is the “History” in History Painting? -
Part Three Circa 1968: Sentimental Histories -
9 On the Advantage and Disadvantage of Sentimental History for Life -
10 Alternative Histories in the Public Realm - Epilogue My Lai and Moral Luck; or, 'Tis Forty Years Since
- Index
(p.59) Part Two Circa 1800: History and Its Genres in the Long Eighteenth Century
(p.59) Part Two Circa 1800: History and Its Genres in the Long Eighteenth Century
- Source:
- On Historical Distance
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300140378.011.0002
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Rethinking Historical Distance: From Doctrine to Heuristic
-
Part One Circa 1500: Machiavelli in the Florentine Tradition -
1 Machiavelli Between History and Chronicle -
2 A Study in Contrasts -
Part Two Circa 1800: History and Its Genres in the Long Eighteenth Century -
3 “The Most Illustrious Philosopher and Historian of the Age” -
4 “What Sympathy then Touches Every Human Heart!” -
5 Nine Hundred Scottish Ministers Write the History of Everyday Life -
6 Past and Present -
7 “The Very Web and Texture of Society as it Really Exists” -
8 “Atopic that History Will Proudly Record”; or, What is the “History” in History Painting? -
Part Three Circa 1968: Sentimental Histories -
9 On the Advantage and Disadvantage of Sentimental History for Life -
10 Alternative Histories in the Public Realm - Epilogue My Lai and Moral Luck; or, 'Tis Forty Years Since
- Index