The Collected Works of William Robertson - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415137438 ISBN 13: 9780415137430

Publisher: Routledge, 1996

Synopsis

First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Synopsis:

Alongside Gibbon and Hume, William Robertson was the most popular British historian of the eighteenth century. A key figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, Robertson was both leader of the Moderate Party in the Church of Scotland and principal of the University of Edinburgh. A prominent debater Robertson's importance has emerged again in the light of original research two hundred years after his death in 1793. This new Works edition supersedes Victorian editions in terms of comprehensiveness and textual accuracy. It has been carefully constructed from the definitive editions, incorporating Robertson's final corrections and revisions for each of the four histories and the published sermon. Besides the major works, the series includes miscellaneous writings and speeches by Robertson and several biographical and critical works about him taken from scarce pamphlets and periodicals. With important new introductions, including one on Robertson as an historian, and the other providing a biographical and bibliographical commentary, this set is essential for scholars of historiography and the social, ecclesiastical and intellectual history of the Scottish Enlightenment.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0415137438
• ISBN 13: 9780415137430
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 5160
• Editor: Sher Richard