Gibbon

Past Masters (Oxford)

by J.W. Burrow

Genres: Nonfiction, Biography, History

112 pages, Paperback

First published May 9, 1985

About the author

John Wyon Burrow was an English historian of intellectual history. His published works include assessments of the Whig interpretation of history and of historiography generally. According to The Independent: "John Burrow was one of the leading intellectual historians of his generation. His pioneering work marked the beginning of a more sophisticated approach to the history of the social sciences, one that did not treat the past as being of interest only in so far as it anticipated the present."