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Mark G. Spencer

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David Hume: Historical Thinker, Historical Writer

1 Hume and Ecclesiastical History: Aims and Contexts

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Roger L. Emerson

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10.1515/9780271062457-004

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Chapters/Headings	Author(s)	Pages	Info
Frontmatter		i
Contents		vii
Acknowledgments		ix
Method of Citation		xi
Introduction: Hume as Historian	Mark G. Spencer	1
1 Hume and Ecclesiastical History: Aims and Contexts	Roger L. Emerson	13
2 Artificial Lives, Providential History, and the Apparent Limits of Sympathetic Understanding	Jennifer A. Herdt	37
3 “The Spirit of Liberty”: Historical Causation and Political Rhetoric in the Age of Hume	Philip Hicks	61
4 “The Book Seemed to Sink into Oblivion”: Reading Hume’s History in Eighteenth-Century Scotland	Mark Towsey	81
5 Reading Hume’s History of England: Audience and Authority in Georgian England	David Allan	103
6 Medieval Kingship and the Making of Modern Civility: Hume’s Assessment of Governance in The History of England	Jeffrey M. Suderman	121
7 Hume and the End of History	F. L. van Holthoon	143
8 David Hume as a Philosopher of History	Claudia M. Schmidt	163
9 Fact and Fiction: Memory and Imagination in Hume’s Approach to History and Literature	Timothy M. Costelloe	181
10 Hume’s Historiographical Imagination	Douglas Long	201
11 The “Most Curious & Important of All Questions of Erudition”: Hume’s Assessment of the Populousness of Ancient Nations	M. A. Box; Michael Silverthorne	225
Selected Bibliography		255
Contributors		267
Index		271
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