Pub Date: June 5, 2014
Dewey: 907.202
Lexile Code: 0000
Features: Illustrated, Maps
Target Age Group: NA to NA
Physical Info: 0.57" H x 9.21" L x 6.14" W ( 0.85 lbs) 261 pages
BISAC Categories:
History | Europe | Germany | Great Britain General | Modern | 18th Century | Social History | Historiography
Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
Description: Historian and minister William Robertson was a central Scottish Enlightenment figure whose influence reached well beyond the boundaries of the British Isles. In this reception study of Robertson's work, Laszlo Kontler shows how the reception of Robertson's major histories in Germany tests the limits of intellectual transfer through translation.