Style history by Peter Gay, 1975, J. Cape edn, English
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* 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.
Th, for Peter Gay, style is the key to culture, and the “tth” of history―as helps to fe that culture―n only be fully unrstood through an objective and thorough analysis of all s elements. Espg 1938 wh the rt of his fay on the last boat of refuge admted to Cuba, he gaed entry wh them to the Uned Stat two years later, wherpon he changed his name to Gay. Gay was the recipient of numero awards, cludg the Natnal Book Award and the received the Amerin Historil Associatn's (AHA) Award for Scholarly Distctn.