Style history by Peter Gay, 1976, McGraw-Hill edn, English
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Style history by Peter Gay, 1975, J. Cape edn, English * peter gay style in history *
“Peter Gay’s Style History has the great mer to show that a work of history s style is not a rative addn to the historian’s narratn but an tegral element of the story through which s facts bee alive and real. Readg Gay’s analysis of Gibbon and Ranke, Maulay and Burckhardt, we unrstand better why they have bee and are the admired masters of the historil craft. In this origal and lucid gui to the proper readg of Gibbon, Ranke, Maulay, and Burckhardt―great historians who were also great stylists―Peter Gay monstrat that, style is an valuable clue to the historian's sight.