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Edward Gibbon and the Pessimism of Empire.


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...so, i added now the fourth chapter the Conclusion (all thats missing are bibliography, which i will add shortly)

 

Intrusive Ideology - How pre-Modern ideologies have coloured our perceptions on Roman History

 

Introduction

 

Chapter I - Gibbon and the Pessimism of Empire

 

Chapter II - Mommsen, Pan-German Unity and the R

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Thanks, now I get it. And I have a question:

 

If by studying History any one of us is always (or almost always) rationalizing the present, it may look like a quite futile exercise, as it seems we would be mostly reaching our own preconceived conclusions.

 

Then, should we study History at all? Why?

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