Titles by Jacob Burckhardt

1818 – 1897

Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897) was a Swiss liberal historian who wrote on Renaissance culture and art, the growth of the power of the modern nation state, and the importance of the self-governing, autonomous city-states of Florence and Athens.

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Judgments on History and Historians

Jacob Burckhardt

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