An essential introduction to a vast body of writing about history, from classical Greece and Rome to the contemporary world.

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The theological implications of the philosophy of history, traced through the works of Buckhardt, Marx, Hegel, Proudhon, Comte, Condorcet, Turgot, Voltaire, Vic