Style in History
#2375 of 3,809 books · #780 in History
Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction (1975).
Peter Gay's Style in History has the great merit to show that in a work of history its style is not a decorative addition to the historian's narration but an integral element of the story through which its facts become alive and real. Reading Gay's analysis of Gibbon and Ranke, Macaulay and Burckhardt, we understand better why they have become and are the admired masters of the historical craft.
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- ISBN-13
- 9780393305586
- Genre
- Topics
- HistoriographyHistorical writing styleHistorians (Gibbon, Ranke, Macaulay, Burckhardt)
Awards
- National Book Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1975)
Other awarded books from Peter Gay
- The Enlightenment, Vol. I: The Rise of Modern Paganism (1995)1 win · 12 score
- Freud: A Life for Our Time (1989)0 wins · 8 score
- The Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience, Victoria to Freud (1993)0 wins · 4 score
- Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider (1968)0 wins · 4 score
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