Table of Contents

1. Politics, Literature, and Science: William Robertson and Historical Discourses in Eighteenth-Century Scotland and Germany 2. Time and Progress, Time as Progress: History by Way of Enlightened Preaching 3. A Different View of the Progress of Society in Europe 4. Scottish Histories and German Identities 5. Maps of Mankind: The Savage and the Civilized

About the Author

László Kontler is a Professor of History at the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. His book A History of Hungary (2002) has been published in six languages.