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The Rhetoric of Numbers in Gibbon's History (Hardcover, New): F. P. Lock

The Rhetoric of Numbers in Gibbon's History (Hardcover, New)

F. P. Lock

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Gibbon aspired to combine the critical analysis of the eighteenth-century philosophe with the older traditions of the humanist and scholarly historian. His different uses of numbers, to inform and to persuade, illustrate his remarkable fusion of these approaches. This book, the first to be devoted to a historian's use of numbers, shows how carefully Gibbon interrogated and deployed the numerical evidence in his sources to create a more accurate historical narrative; to demonstrate his own reliability and candor as a historian; and to convince readers of the validity of his interpretations of characters and events.

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Imprint:	University of Delaware Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2012
First published:	September 2012
Authors:	F. P. Lock
Dimensions:	233 x 159 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	224
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-61149-416-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Humanities > History > Theory & methods > General Books > History > Theory & methods > General Promotions
LSN:	1-61149-416-8
Barcode:	9781611494167