Judgements on History and Historians
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Campo Formio
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European intellectual tradition
False Position
Ferdinand II
Follow
Frederick III
Held
henry
Henry IV
historical epochs analysis
James III
Leo
louis
Louis XI
Mankind
massacres
Middle Age
nationalist revolutions study
North
philosophy of history
Richard III
september
spanish
Spanish Succession
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thirty
Treaty Of Campo Formio
Tudors
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war
William III
xiv
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Product details
- ISBN 9780415412933
- Weight: 376g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 01 Feb 2007
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Western Civilisation was in its pomp when Jacob Burckhardt delivered his Judgements on History and Historians; European Empires spanned the globe, while the modern age was being forged in the nationalist revolutions of 1848. As a tutor to the young Friedrich Nietzsche as well as one of the first historians to take 'culture' as his subject rather than the triumphs and travails of kings and generals, Burckhardt was at the vanguard of this modern sensibility.
Ambitious in its scope, ranging from the days of Ancient Egypt, through the Reformation to the time of Napoleon, this is indeed a history of 'Western Civilization', written before two monstrous world wars threw such a concept into disrepute.
Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897), was born in Basel in Switzerland where he lived and worked for virtually the whole of his life. The author of The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy, he is widely regarded as the father of Cultural History.
