History
About this Collection
Whether it is David Hume’s eighteenth-century account of English history stretching from Julius Caesar to the Glorious Revolution or Edmund Burke’s analysis of the American and French Revolutions as he watched them unfold, our history collection reflects on the events of history and the ways we discuss those events over time.
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Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) | Thomas Babbington Macaulay (1800-1859) | Henry Sumner Maine (1822-1888) |
See also the extracts, chapters, and introductions in the History section of the Ideas page.
Members:
- Outlines of an historical view of the progress of the human mind (Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet)
- The Perfectibility of Man (John Passmore)
- Plutarch’s Lives (Dryden trans.) (Plutarch)
- Plutarch’s Lives (Dryden trans.) vol. 1 (Plutarch)
- Plutarch’s Lives (Dryden trans.) vol. 2 (Plutarch)
- Plutarch’s Lives (Dryden trans.) vol. 3 (Plutarch)
- Plutarch’s Lives (Dryden trans.) vol. 4 (Plutarch)
- Plutarch’s Lives (Dryden trans.) vol. 5 (Plutarch)
- Plutarch’s Lives, Englished by Sir Thomas North in Ten Volumes (Plutarch)
- Plutarch’s Lives, Englished by Sir Thomas North in Ten Volumes - Volume 1 (Sir Thomas North)
- Plutarch’s Lives, Englished by Sir Thomas North in Ten Volumes - Volume 2 (Sir Thomas North)
- Plutarch’s Lives, Englished by Sir Thomas North in Ten Volumes - Volume 3 (Plutarch)
- Plutarch’s Lives, Englished by Sir Thomas North in Ten Volumes - Volume 4 (Plutarch)
- Plutarch’s Lives, Englished by Sir Thomas North in Ten Volumes - Volume 5 (Plutarch)
- Plutarch’s Lives, Englished by Sir Thomas North in Ten Volumes - Volume 6 (Plutarch)
- Plutarch’s Lives, Englished by Sir Thomas North in Ten Volumes - Volume 7 (Plutarch)
- Plutarch’s Lives, Englished by Sir Thomas North in Ten Volumes - Volume 8 (Plutarch)
- Plutarch’s Lives, Englished by Sir Thomas North in Ten Volumes - Volume 9 (Plutarch)
- Plutarch’s Lives, Englished by Sir Thomas North in Ten Volumes - Volume 10 (Plutarch)
- Poor Law Commissioners’ Report of 1834 (Nassau William Senior)
- The Present Age (Robert A. Nisbet)
- The Present State of Germany (Samuel von Pufendorf)
- Kant’s Principles of Politics, including his essay on Perpetual Peace (Immanuel Kant)
- The Prose Works of John Milton, vol. 2 (Rufus Wilmot Griswold)
- The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville (1896) (Alexis de Tocqueville)