Style in History
Douban
ISBN: 9780393305586
author:
Peter Gay
publishing house:
W. W. Norton & Company
publication date: 1989
-1
price: USD 19.95
number of pages: 258
Peter Gay
overview
In this original and lucid guide to the proper reading of Gibbon, Ranke, Macaulay, and Burckhardt--great historians who were also great stylists--Peter Gay demonstrates that style is an invaluable clue to the historian's insight.