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CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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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

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The “Most Curious & Important of All Questions of Erudition”: Hume’s Assessment of the Populousness of Ancient Nations

M. A. Box and Michael Silverthorne

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