Judgements on History and Historians

Regarded as the father of 'Cultural History', Burckhardt's Judgements on History and Historians is an ambitious work written at a time when Europe was at the height of its power and confidence as a cultural and political force.

Introduction. Translator's Preface 1. Antiquity 2. The Middle Ages 3. History from 1450 to 1598 4. History of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Ceturies 5. The Age of Revolution