Failing to throw his mind back into the past : the reception of David Hume’s History of England in early nineteenth-centruy British historiography

From narrow partisan attacks on his political and religious views to more sophisticated discussions of his mode of historical writing, British writers in the first half of the nineteenth-century responded in various ways to David Hume's History of England. The response to Hume's history...

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Main Author: Miles, David
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/9745