The Cambridge Modern History [14 Bd.e]. The Renaissance / The Reformation / The Wars of Religion / The Thirty Years' War / The Age of Louis XIV / The Eighteenth Century / The United States / The French Revolution / Napoleon / The Restoration / The Growth of Nationalities / The Latest Age / Tables and General Index / Atlas.

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - oben Schnitt vergoldet, ansonsten unbeschnitten, leicht gebr�t, altersgem�sehr guter Zustand / top cut gilt, otherwise untrimmed, lightly browned, very good condition for age - INTRODUCTORY NOTE -- Any division of history is doubtless arbitrary. But it is impossible for history to discharge all the obligations which, from a strictly scientific point of view, are incumbent upon it. If we accept the position that history is concerned with tracing the evolution of human affairs we are continually being driven further back for our starting point. The word �affairs� is generally supposed to indicate some definite movement; and the forces which render a movement possible must be supposed to have depended upon institutions which produced organised action. These institutions arose from attempts to grapple with circumstances by the application of ideas. We are thus carried back to an enquiry into the influence of physical environment and mt: the origin of ideas relating to society. We pass insensibly from the- region of recorded facts into a region of hypothesis, where the qualities requisite for an historian have to be supplemented by those of the anthropologist and the metaphysician. A pause must be made somewhere. Humanity must be seized at some period of its development. if a beginning is to be made at all. The selection of that point must be determined by some recognisable motive of convenience. -- The limitation implied by the term modern history depends on such a motive, and is to be defended on that ground only. Modern history professes to deal with mankind in a period when they had reached the stage of civilisation which is in its broad outlines familiar to us, during the period in which the problems that still occupy us came into conscious recognition, and were dealt with in ways intelligible to us as resembling our own. It is this sense of familiarity which leads us to draw a line and mark out the beginnings of modern history.