Judgements on History and Historians - Jacob Burckhardt

Judgements on History and Historians

By Jacob Burckhardt

  • Release Date: 2016-02-01
  • Genre: History

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Western Civilisation was in its pomp when Jacob Burckhardt delivered his Judgements on History and Historians; European Empires spanned the globe, while the modern age was being forged in the nationalist revolutions of 1848. As a tutor to the young Friedrich Nietzsche as well as one of the first historians to take 'culture' as his subject rather th

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