books.google.co.uk - To understand Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire properly it is necessary to have knowledge of his historiographical and philosophical context. Gibbon is considered here not just for what he reveals of eighteenth-century intellectual attitudes, but for his forceful interpretation...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Edward_Gibbon_and_Empire.html?id=awMQRkgTaKwC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareEdward Gibbon and Empire
