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040			_cKrishna
082			_a907.2 BUR
100			_aBurckhardt, Jacob.
245			_aJudgements on history and historians / _cJacob Burckhardt,
260			_aLondon : _aNew York : _bRoutledge, _c2007.
300			_axxvi, 314 p. : _bill. ; _c20 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aWestern Civilisation was in its pomp when Jacob Burckhardt delivered his Judgements on History and Historians; European Empires spanned the globe, while the modern age was being forged in the nationalist revolutions of 1848. As a tutor to the young Friedrich Nietzsche as well as one of the first historians to take 'culture' as his subject rather than the triumphs and travails of kings and generals, Burckhardt was at the vanguard of this modern sensibility. Ambitious in its scope, ranging from the days of Ancient Egypt, through the Reformation to the time of Napoleon, this is indeed a history
650			_aWorld history.
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