Style in HistoryW. W. Norton & Company, 1988 - 241 páginas 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. |
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A Modern Cynic among Ancient | 19 |
The Dramatist | 59 |
The Scientist | 67 |
The Believer | 76 |
The Acrobat | 97 |
The Son | 114 |
The Liberal | 128 |
The Condottiere | 141 |
The Poet | 165 |
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