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Charting the Past - The Historical Worlds of Eighteenth-Century England (Paperback)
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Charting the Past - The Historical Worlds of Eighteenth-Century England (Paperback)
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Eighteenth-century England was a place of enlightenment and
revolution: new ideas abounded in science, politics,
transportation, commerce, religion, and the arts. But even as
England propelled itself into the future, it was preoccupied with
notions of its past. Jeremy Black considers the interaction of
history with knowledge and culture in eighteenth-century England
and shows how this engagement with the past influenced English
historical writing. The past was used as a tool to illustrate the
contemporary religious, social, and political debates that shaped
the revolutionary advances of the era. Black reveals this
"present-centered" historical writing to be so valued and
influential in the eighteenth-century that its importance is
greatly underappreciated in current considerations of the period.
In his customarily vivid and sweeping approach, Black takes readers
from print shop to church pew, courtroom to painter's studio to
show how historical writing influenced the era, which in turn gave
birth to the modern world.
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