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      • Volume 4: Barbarians, Savages and Empires
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      January 2010
      October 2005
      ISBN:
      9780511490682
      9780521856256
      9780521721011
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511490682
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.74kg, 388 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.622kg, 388 Pages
      • Subjects:
      History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
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    'Barbarism and Religion' - Edward Gibbon's own phrase - is the title of a sequence of works by John Pocock designed to situate Gibbon, and his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in a series of contexts in the history of eighteenth-century Europe. In the fourth volume in the sequence, first published in 2005, Pocock argues that barbarism was central to the history of western historiography, to the history of the Enlightenment, and to Edward Gibbon himself. As a concept it was deeply problematic to Enlightened historians seeking to understand their own civilised societies in the light of exposure to newly discovered civilisations which were, until then, beyond the reach of history itself.

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    'This book's challenging combination of Gibbonian study with history, historiography and philosophy carries Prof. Pocock's work onto a new level and one that will deepen the reader's understanding of all four.'

    Source: Contemporary Review

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