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STYLE IN HISTORY
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| By: |
Peter Gay |
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Paperback |
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£18.50 |
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£15.73 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0393305589 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780393305586 |
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| Publisher: |
WW NORTON & CO |
| Pub. date: |
26 April, 1989 |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Description: |
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. |
| Synopsis: |
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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illustrations, bibliography, index |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
WW Norton & Co |
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Non-returnable |
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