David Hume : Historical Thinker, Historical Writer.

COVER Front -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Method of Citation -- Introduction: Hume as Historian (Mark G. Spencer) -- Chapter 1: Hume and Ecclesiastical History: Aims and Contexts (Roger L. Emerson) -- Notes to Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2: Artificial Lives, Providential History, and the Apparent Limits of Sympathetic Understanding (Jennifer A. Herdt) -- Notes to Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3: "The Spirit of Liberty": Historical Causationand Political Rhetoric in the Age of Hume (Philip Hicks) -- Notes to Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4: "The Book Seemed to Sink into Oblivion": Reading Hume's History in Eighteenth-Century Scotland (Mark Towsey) -- Notes to Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5: Reading Hume's History of England: Audience and Authority in Georgian England (David Allan) -- Notes to Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6: Medieval Kingship and the Making of Modern Civility: Hume's Assessment of Governance in the History of England (Jeffrey M. Suderman) -- Notes to Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7: Hume and the End of History (F. L. van Holthoon) -- Notes to Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8: David Hume as a Philosopher of History (Claudia M. Schmidt) -- Notes to Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9: Fact and Fiction: Memory and Imagination in Hume's Approach to History and Literature (Timothy M. Costelloe) -- Notes to Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10: Hume's Historiographical Imagination (Douglas Long) -- Notes to Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11: The "Most Curious &amp -- Important of All Questions of Erudition": Hume's Assessment of the Populousness of Ancient Nations (M. A. Box and Michael Silverthorne) -- Notes to Chapter 11 -- Selected Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index -- COVER Back.

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