Style in History

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Peter Gay

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What does an historian's style reveal? In this original and lucid guide to the proper reading of Gibbon, Ranke, Macaulay, and Burckhardt?great historians who were also great stylists?Peter Gay demonstrates that, style is an invaluable clue to the historian's insight. Thus, for Peter Gay, style is the key to culture, and the ?truth? of history?as it helps to define that culture?can only be fully understood through an objective and thorough analysis of all its elements.

Author Biography:

Peter Gay (1923—2015) was the author of more than twenty-five books, including the National Book Award winner The Enlightenment, the best-selling Weimar Culture, and the widely translated Freud: A Life for Our Time.

Release date Australia

April 26th, 1989

Author

Peter Gay

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

256

Dimensions

130x191x18

ISBN-13

9780393305586

Product ID

14555857

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