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Paul Rapin Thoyras and the Art of Eighteenth-century Historiography
"This is the first book on the genesis, impact, and reception of the most widely read history of England of the early eighteenth century: Paul Rapin Thoyras's 'Histoire d'Angleterre' (1724-1727). The 'Histoire' and complementary works ('Extraits des actes de Rymer', 1710-1723; 'Dissertation sur les Whigs et les Torys', 1717) gave practical expression to theorizations of history against Pyrrhonian postulations by foregrounding an empirical form of history-writing. Rapin's unprecedented standards of historiographical accuracy triggered both politically informed reinterpretations of the 'Histoire' in partisan newspapers and a multitude of adaptations that catered to an ever-growing number of re...
The Persistence of Party
This fundamental re-evaluation of the origins and importance of the idea of 'party' in British political thought and politics in the eighteenth century draws on the writings of Rapin, Bolingbroke, David Hume, John Brown and Edmund Burke to demonstrate that attitudes to party were more complex and penetrating than previously thought.
Commerce, Finance and Statecraft
In the 17th and 18th centuries, historians of England pioneered a series of new approaches to the nation's economic history. This text charts the development of these forms of writing and examines their importance for the economic, political and historical thought of the period.
