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Synopsis In this three volumes book, author provides comprehensive overview on the philosophy of history developed by 35 philosophers from the earliest time to the modern era. Traditional philosophy of history has been discussed in the first volume which includes philosophical history of Augustine, Orosius, Joachim, Machiavelli, Jean Bodin, Montaigne, Bacon, Hobbes, Bossuet, John Locke, Leibniz, Vico, Voltaire, Kant, Condorcet, and Herder. Second volume describes the philosophical ideas of history of Hegel, Comte, Mill, Marx, Burckhardt, Buckle, Tolstoy, Dilthey, Bradley, Meyer, Plekhanov and Croce. Third volume deals with the ideas of history of Spengler, Toynbee, Niebuhr, Oakeshott, Skinner, Foucault, MacIntyre, and contextual claim and textual exegeses. The detailed philosophical account of history would certainly help all readers to analyze the subject and reach their own conclusion.