Style in history

260 Pages·1974·13.583 MB·english

by  Peter Gay

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Books by Peter Gay
Style in History (1974)
(with R. K. Webb) Modern Europe
(1973)
The Bridge of Criticism: Dialogues on the Enlightenment (1970)
The Enlightenment: An Interpretation, volume 2, The Science
Freedom
of (1969)
Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider (1968)
A
Loss of Mastery: Puritan Historians in Colonial America (1966)
The Enlightenment: An Interpretation, volume The Rise
1,
of Modern Paganism (1966)
The Party of Humanity: Essays in the French Enlightenment
(1964)
Voltaire's Politics: The Poet as Realist (1959)
The Dilemma of Democratic Socialism: Eduard Bernstein's
Challenge to Marx (1952)
TRANSLATIONS WITH INTRODUCTIONS
Voltaire: Candide (1963)
Voltaire: Philosophical Dictionary, two volumes (1962)
Ernst Cassirer: The Question of Jean Jacques Rousseau (1954)
ANTHOLOGIES AND COLLECTIVE WORKS
The Enlightenment: A Comprehensive Anthology
(1973)
Eighteenth Century Studies Presented to
Arthur M. Wilson
(1972)
(with John A. Garraty) The Columbia History of the World
(*972
)
(with Gerald Cavanaugh and Victor G. Wexler) Historians
J.
at Work, two volumes (1972)
Deism: An Anthology
(1968)
John Locke on Education
(1964)
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Style in history.
Bibliography:
p.
Includes index.
1. Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794. 2. Ranke, Leo-
pold von, 1795-1886. Macaulay, Thomas Babing-
3.
ton Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859. 4. Burckhardt,
Jakob Christoph, 1818-1897. 5. Historiography.
I. Title.
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to Bob Webb
Friend, Collaborator, Stylist
IIIt is most true, stylus virum arguit,
our style bewrays us."
—ROBERT BURTON,
Anatomy Melancholy
of