Narratives of Enlightenment: Cosmopolitan History from Voltaire to Gibbon Book

	Acknowledgements and author's note
1	Introduction: cosmopolitanism, narrative, history	1
2	Voltaire's neoclassical poetics of history	21
3	European contexts in Hume's History of England	56
4	William Robertson to the rescue of Scottish history	93
5	Robertson on the triumph of Europe and its empires	129
6	Emulation and revival: Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	167
7	David Ramsay's sceptical history of the American Revolution	204
	Afterword	234
	Bibliography: Selected secondary studies of the work of individual historians	239
	Bibliography: Selected general studies of historical writing in the eighteenth century	242
	Index	244