Charting the Past: The Historical Worlds of Eighteenth-Century England Contributor(s): Black, Jeremy (Author) |
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ISBN: 025303776X ISBN-13: 9780253037763 Publisher: Indiana University Press OUR PRICE: $79.20 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Historiography - History | Social History - History | Europe - Great Britain - General |
Dewey: 941.070 |
LCCN: 2018035757 |
Physical Information: 0.88" H x 6" W x 9" (1.43 lbs) 298 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - 18th Century |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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 present-centered 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. |