Historian and minister William Robertson was a central Scottish Enlightenment figure whose influence reached well beyond the boundaries of the British Isles. In this reception study of Robertson’s work, Laszlo Kontler shows how the reception of Robertson’s major histories in Germany tests the limits of intellectual transfer through translation.
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1. Politics, Literature, and Science: William Robertson and Historical Discourses in Eighteenth-Century Scotland and Germany 2. Time and Progress, Time as Progress: History by Way of Enlightened Preaching 3. A Different View of the Progress of Society in Europe 4. Scottish Histories and German Identities 5. Maps of Mankind: The Savage and the Civilized
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László Kontler is a Professor of History at the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. His book A History of Hungary (2002) has been published in six languages.
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