The Rhetoric of Numbers in Gibbon's History
1st Edition
Published on 28. September 2012
236 pages
978-1-61149-417-4 (ISBN)
Description
Gibbon aspired to combine the critical analysis of the eighteenth-century philosophe with the older traditions of the humanist and scholarly historian. His different uses of numbers, to inform and to persuade, illustrate his remarkable fusion of these approaches. This book, the first to be devoted to a historian's use of numbers, shows how carefully Gibbon interrogated and deployed the numerical evidence in his sources to create a more accurate historical narrative; to demonstrate his own reliability and candor as a historian; and to convince readers of the validity of his interpretations of characters and events.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-61149-417-4 (9781611494174)
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F. P. Lock
The Rhetoric of Numbers in Gibbon's History
Book
09/2012
University of Delaware Press
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Person
F. P. Lock is professor of English at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Note on References
- Preface
- 1 Numbers
- 2 Time
- 3 Place
- 4 Population
- 5 War
- 6 Religion
- 7 Money
- 8 Books
- Index
- About the Author
