Augustan Politics and English Historiography
The Debate on the English Past, 1730-35
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3208169 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Isaac Kramnick (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1967 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 33 |
| Publication date | 1967-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History and Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2656 • E-ISSN: 1468-2303 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2504483 |
| OpenAlex | W2312689660 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
My long stay in the country gave me leisure to read a good deal; I applied myself to history, particularly that of England; for rightly to understand what a nation is, one should previously learn what it has been. If I complained of the different accounts which are given by the English of themselves in their present circumstances, I have no less reason to complain of their historians: Past transactions are so variously related and with such a mixture of prejudice on both sides, that it is as hard to know truth from their relations, as religion from the comments of the divines
Archaeology · Art · Historiography · Literature · Political science · Politics · Australian History and Society · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law · Scottish History and National Identity
The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson
Commerce, finance and statecraft
Visions of Politics
The rediscovery of republican values
British Identities and the Politics of Ancient Poetry in Later Eighteenth-Century England
Global Turns
David Hume's ‘A Character of Sir Robert Walpole’
Civic Humanism and Parliamentary Reform
The Trinitarian Crisis in Church and State
Lord Bolingbroke’s history of British foreign policy, 1492–1753
Laurence Echard – Whig Historian
The Ancient Constitution and the Languages of Political Thought
| Citations per year | 0.26 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1979 - 2023 (45) |
| Highly cited | No |