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The Rhetoric of Numbers in Gibbon's History
Engelsk Hardback
The Rhetoric of Numbers in Gibbon's History
Engelsk Hardback

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Gibbon aspired to combine the critical analysis of the eighteenth-century philosophe with the older traditions of the humanist and scholarly historian. His different uses of numbers, to inform and to persuade, illustrate his remarkable fusion of these approaches. This book, the first to be devoted to a historian’s use of numbers, shows how carefully Gibbon interrogated and deployed the numerical evidence in his sources to create a more accurate historical narrative; to demonstrate his own reliability and candor as a historian; and to convince readers of the validity of his interpretations of characters and events.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
224
ISBN-13:
9781611494167
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1611494168
Udg. Dato:
27 sep 2012
Længde:
22mm
Bredde:
159mm
Højde:
233mm
Forlag:
Rowman & Littlefield
Oplagsdato:
27 sep 2012
Forfatter(e):
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