Charting the past : the historical worlds of eighteenth-century England / Jeremy Black.

The world of history
Purposes, narratives, methods
A historical world of partisan strife: the early eighteenth century
Contrasting approaches: Burnet and Astell
The unstable past: dissenters and history
History suited to midcentury struggle
From the new reign to the crisis of empire, 1760-76
Empire as historical narrative: Gibbon and the Descent of civilizations
History in the age of Burke.