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David Hume
edited by MARK G. SPENCER
David Hume
HISTORICAL THINKER, HISTORICAL WRITER
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS UNIVERSITY PARK, PENNSYLVANIA
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
David Hume : historical thinker, historical writer / edited by Mark G. Spencer.
p. cm
Summary: “A transdisciplinary collection of essays focusing on David Hume as historian, and arguing that his ‘historical’ and ‘philosophical’ works are more intimately connected than scholars have often assumed”—Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-271-06154-2 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN 978-0-271-06155-9 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Hume, David, 1711–1776—Criticism and interpretation.
2. Great Britain—Historiography.
3. England—Historiography.
4. Hume, David, 1711–1776. History of England.
I. Spencer, Mark G., editor of compilation.
DA759.7.H86D38 2013
942.0072’02—dc23
2013023131
Copyright © 2013 The Pennsylvania State University
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Printed in the United States of America
Published by The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, PA 16802-1003
The Pennsylvania State University Press is a member of the Association of American University Presses.
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Library Material, ANSI Z39.48–1992.
For
FREDERICK A. DREYER (1932–2012)
historian, teacher, friend
CONTENTS
Introduction: Hume as Historian
Hume and Ecclesiastical History: Aims and Contexts
Artificial Lives, Providential History, and the Apparent Limits of Sympathetic Understanding
“The Spirit of Liberty”: Historical Causation and Political Rhetoric in the Age of Hume
4
“The Book Seemed to Sink into Oblivion”: Reading Hume’s History in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
Mark Towsey
5
Reading Hume’s History of England: Audience and Authority in Georgian England
David Allan
6
Medieval Kingship and the Making of Modern Civility: Hume’s Assessment of Governance in The History of England
Jeffrey M. Suderman
7
Hume and the End of History
F. L. van Holthoon
8
David Hume as a Philosopher of History
Claudia M. Schmidt
9
Fact and Fiction: Memory and Imagination in Hume’s Approach to History and Literature
Timothy M. Costelloe
10
Hume’s Historiographical Imagination
Douglas Long
11
The “Most Curious & Important of All Questions of Erudition”: Hume’s Assessment of the Populousness of Ancient Nations
M. A. Box and Michael Silverthorne
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX