閱讀書目
1. Charles de Secondat Montesquieu (1689-1755), The Spirit of Laws (1748)
2. Jean Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778), The Age of Louis XIV (1751)
3. David Hume (1711-1776), History of England (1754-62)
4. Edward Gibbon (1737-94), History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776 )
5. William Robertson (1721-93), History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V (1769)
6. Leopold von Ranke (1795-1886), History of Latin and Germanic Nations from 1494-1514.
7. Francois-Pierre-Guillaume Guizot, The History of Civilization in Europe (1828) 8. Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship.
9. Thomas Babington Macaulay, History of England.
10. Jacob Burckhardt, The Civilization of Renaissance in Italy.
11. Henry Thomas Buckle, History of Civilization in England.