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Subject(s)

• Robertson, William 1721-1793 [Browse]
• Scotland—Intellectual life—18th century [Browse]
• Europe—Colonies—America—Historiography [Browse]
• Imperialism—Historiography [Browse]
• Scotland—Historiography [Browse]
• Europe—Historiography [Browse]
• India—Historiography [Browse]

Related name

• Brown, Stewart J. [Browse]

Series

• Ideas in context ; 45. [More in this series]
• Ideas in context ; 45 [More in this series]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-267) and index.

Contents

• Introduction / Stewart J. Brown
• 1. William Robertson (1721-1793) and the Scottish Enlightenment / Stewart J. Brown
• 2. Robertson's letters and the life of writing / Jeffrey Smitten
• 3. Providence and progress: an introduction to the historical thought of William Robertson / Nicholas Phillipson
• 4. Robertson's place in the development of eighteenth-century narrative history / Karen O'Brien
• 5. Robertsonian Romanticism and realism / Owen Dudley Edwards
• 6. The ideological significance of Robertson's History of Scotland / Colin Kidd
• 7. The reception of William Robertson's historical writings in eighteenth-century France / John Renwick
• 8. Charles V and the book trade: an episode in Enlightenment print culture / Richard B. Sher
• 9. 'From savage to Scot' via the French and the Spaniards: Principal Robertson's Spanish sources / Bruce P. Lenman
• 10. Robertson and contemporary images of India / Geoffrey Carnall --
• 11. Bibliography of writings about William Robertson, 1755-1996 / Jeffrey Smitten.

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ISBN

0521570832 (hardback)

LCCN

96031665

OCLC

35043676

RCP

C - S

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