"This new and unexampled way of writing the history of future times" : the rise and fall of empires and the acceleration of history in Samuel Madden's eighteenth-century Memoirs from the future

53-88 p.

• Articles from the same issue (available individually)

  • Introduction : imperial times : towards a history of imperial uses of time
  • "To imitate the ancients, having adopted the corrections of the moderns" : Scipione Maffei's Consiglio politico
  • "This new and unexampled way of writing the history of future times" : the rise and fall of empires and the acceleration of history in Samuel Madden's eighteenth-century Memoirs from the future
  • Investing in the enlightenment : the financial revolution and the global origins of the enlightenment in the Spanish empire
  • "Sometimes, the past is the present" : electoral reforms, the working classes, and the British empire
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  DOI: 10.19272/202011501003

  ISSN: 2281-1141

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