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      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

      All rights reserved

      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.

      It is the policy of The Pennsylvania State University Press to use acid-free paper. Publications on uncoated stock satisfy the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed

      Library Material, ANSI Z39.48–1992.

       For

      FREDERICK A. DREYER (1932–2012)

       historian, teacher, friend

      CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

METHOD OF CITATION

Introduction: Hume as Historian

Mark G. Spencer

1

Hume and Ecclesiastical History: Aims and Contexts

Roger L. Emerson

2

Artificial Lives, Providential History, and the Apparent Limits of Sympathetic Understanding

Jennifer A. Herdt

3

“The Spirit of Liberty”: Historical Causation and Political Rhetoric in the Age of Hume

Philip Hicks

       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

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      Many people have helped to make this book possible. For financial support, I am especially grateful to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Humanities Research Institute at Brock University. At The Pennsylvania State University Press, Sandy Thatcher (now retired) gave the fledgling idea his backing early on. Kendra Boileau, with her assistant Robert Turchick, guided the project through to production, where Laura Reed-Morrisson, Kathleen Kageff, Steve Kress and Patricia Mitchell expertly saw things through to the end. My colleagues and students in the Department of History at Brock University listened with keen interest (not always feigned) and lent their encouragement along the way. Exacting research assistance from Mathieu Robitaille (BA, Brock University, 2009) and Janet Baines (MA, Brock University, 2010) is evident in the bibliography. As always, my greatest supporters are found at home, where Kelly and our two boys, Thomas and William, indulge with such good-natured ease the curious pursuits of their resident historian.

       Mark G. Spencer

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