Style in History [Paperback]

What does an historians style reveal? In this original and lucid guide to the proper reading of Gibbon, Ranke, Macaulay, and Burckhardtgreat historians who were also great stylistsPeter Gay demonstrates that, style is an invaluable clue to the historian's insight. Thus, for Peter Gay, style is the key to culture, and the truth of historyas it helps to define that culturecan only be fully understood through an objective and thorough analysis of all its elements.Peter Gays