Table of Contents: “…My debt to Gerd: his legacy as teacher of history and historian of ideas, fifty years after The idea of reform and in light of present research /…”
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Table of Contents: “…The historical philosophy of the Enlightenment -- The Scottish Enlightenment -- Pietro Giannone and Great Britain -- Dimitrie Cantemir's Ottoman history and its reception in England -- From deism to history: Conyers Middleton -- David Hume, historian -- The idea of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire -- Gibbon and the publication of the Decline and fall of the Roman Empire 1776-1976 -- Gibbon's last project -- The romantic movement and the study of history -- Lord Macaulay: the history of England -- Thomas Carlyle's historical philosophy -- Jacob Burckhardt.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Famously, It Seems -- Mississippi's Victorian Treasures Get Their Due -- Alabama's Architecture Gets Some Overdue Respect -- William Faulkner and the Tangible Past: The Architecture of Yoknapatawpha -- Matrana Shows Pride and Ruin of Plantations -- Historian Upends Ideas on American Architecture -- Scholar-Town Houses Have Many Tales to Tell -- Legacy Presents a Detailed Look at Rayfield's Work -- Fallingwater Study Cuts Myths, Affirms Merits -- The Architect of America -- New Orleans Takes Shape in an Architect's Memoir -- Stumbling on a Fossil of a Southern Dinosaur -- McMurtry's Hometown a Paradise for Collectors -- Drama of Story Comes Alive in Monroeville -- A Night in the Library -- Finding Cahaba: New Book Rekindles Fascination with Alabama's First Capital -- Looking Past Midnight -- A Literary Ramble through Old New Orleans -- Oxford, Mississippi: A Literary Profile -- A Small City of Literary Giants: Greenville, Mississippi -- Visit to Library Is a Return to Childhood -- Images from the Literary Side of Paris, with a Personal Touch -- Walter-Inspired Dream an Affirmation of Creativity -- A Tale Worthy of the Centuries: Looking into Chapman's Iliad -- Plato's Ancient Words Inspire the Modern Mind -- Old Story, New Life: Heaney Makes Epic Worth the Wait -- Decline and Fall Stands Test of Time -- Last of the Mohicans Was First of Its Kind -- Omoo a Showcase for Melville's Lighter Side -- Slowly, Beautifully: That's How the Cookie Crumbles -- Revisiting a Classic at the Water's Edge -- Joseph Conrad's Typhoon Shows Power of Storm -- One Man's Trash Is Another Man's Pleasure -- Pride and Prejudice Run Deep in Memoir -- Old Soldier Sahib a Rare Chronicle of Bygone Empire -- Cather's Look Westward Broke New Literary Ground -- Shane Stands as Classic of Western Genre -- Book behind Classic Wayne Film Still Holds Up -- Pacific Battleground Is More Than a Memory -- A Shadowed Friendship: Book Looks Back on Broken Bond between Two Powerful Writers -- Quirky Italian Novel Shines in Recent Reissue -- "Just an adventurer": An Aid Worker's Strange Path -- Cuba in Mind Brings Island Near Enough to Touch -- Events Make Brick Lane a Timely Volume -- Long Way Gone a Tribute to Human Spirit -- My Forbidden Face Drives Home Sufferings of Women under Taliban -- Márquez Classic Still Rewards Reader's Effort -- Istanbul, Not Constantinople, Gets the Works from a Nobel-Winning Native Son -- Iconic AK47 Assault Rifle Subject of Far-Ranging Biography -- Plagiarism Charges Pull Prize-Winner from Shelves -- Alexandria's Library Rises from the Ashes-but Fires Still Burn -- George and Lennie Feeling the Squeeze -- Proposed Book Ban Deserves Firm Rebuttal -- America Flap Puts Mississippi in Spotlight -- Writer Takes Clear-Eyed Look at Battle Flag's Past and Present -- Without Sanctuary Confronts an Ugly Past -- Poe Folks Perturbed by Graveyard Guest -- Breach of Faith Offers Incisive Critiques -- An Open Letter to Louisiana's Governor -- School's Switch Alarms Book Lovers -- Old Writings Preserve Sense of Beaches' Beauty -- My First Gun Became a Boy's Rite of Passage -- The Reader: A Quieter Side of Michael Jackson -- Politics Aside, Spanish Opens Rich Literary Terrain -- In Changing Times, It's Hard to Turn the Page -- Southern Writers Save the Style for the Page -- Oscar Wilde: One Fine Figure of a Writer -- Everybody Has a Story, but Who Wants to Read It? …”
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