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Style in history

by Peter Gay

This guide analyses how the writing styles of major historians, such as Gibbon, Ranke, Macaulay, and Burckhardt, reveal their deeper insights. It argues that a close study of style is essential to understanding culture and historical truth.

Accession 16283 ISBN 0393305589 Publisher W. W. Norton & Co.
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