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Cambridge University Press Utopias of the British Enlightenment
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Cambridge University Press Defining Science William Whewell Natural Knowledge and Public Debate in Early Victorian Britain 27 Ideas in Context Series Number 27
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Cambridge University Press Early Greek Political Thought from Homer to the Sophists
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Cambridge University Press Hobbes On the Citizen Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
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Cambridge University Press Andrew Fletcher
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Cambridge University Press Sir John Fortescue
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Cambridge University Press An Approach to Political Philosophy Locke in Contexts 25 Ideas in Context
Book SynopsisAn Approach to Political Philosophy: Locke in Context brings together Professor Tully's most important and innovative statements on Locke in a systematic treatment of the latter's thought that is at once contextual and critical. Each essay has been rewritten and expanded for this volume, and each seeks to understand a theme of Locke's political philosophy by interpreting it in light of the complex contexts of early modern European political thought and practice. These historical studies are then used in a variety of ways to gain critical perspectives on the assumptions underlying current debates in political philosophy and the history of political thought. The themes treated include government, toleration, discipline, property, aboriginal rights, individualism, power, labour, self-ownership, community, progress, liberty, participation, and revolution.Trade Review'James Tully's analysis is scholarly in its historical detail, imaginative in its search for meaning, provocatively ambitious in its scope and thoroughly engaging at all levels.' Alsitais Edwards, Journal of Political StudiesTable of ContentsPart I. A Philosophy of Limited Government: 1. An introduction to Locke's political philosophy; Part II. Property Disputes: 2. After the Macpherson thesis; 3. The framework of natural rights in Locke's analysis of property; 4. Differences in the interpretation of Locke on property; 5. Rediscovering America: the two treatises and aboriginal rights; Part III. Governing Subjects: 6. Governing conduct: Locke on the reform of thought and behaviour; 7. Rights in abilities; 8. Progress and scepticism; Part IV. Freedom and Revolution: 9. Liberty and natural law; 10. Political freedom.
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Cambridge University Press Hobhouse Liberalism Othr Writngs Liberalism and Other Writings Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
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Cambridge University Press Voltaire Political Writings Cambridge Texts in
Book SynopsisThis edition of Voltaire's political writings presents a varied selection of his most interesting and controversial texts, many of which have not previously been translated into English. They range over the nature and legitimacy of political power, law and the social order, crime and punishment, liberty and humanity, war and peace, and the growing disorder in the French economy. They also touch on specific issues and events in pre-Revolutionary France to which Voltaire responded and in which he was closely involved, including the Seven Years' War and relations with Frederick II, the Genevan quarrels of the 1760s, and the sensational trials of Jean Calas, Sirven and the Chevalier de La Barre. A comprehensive introduction explores the background to these texts, which together reflect the full range of Voltaire's responses to the most significant issues of his time.Table of ContentsList of abbreviations; Chronology; Introduction; Bibliographical note; Select bibliography; Biographical note; Editorial note; Note on translation; Articles from the Pocket Philosophical Dictionary; Articles from the Questions on the Encyclopaedia; The A B C, or Dialogues between A B C, translated from the English by Mr Huet; Other writings: Republican ideas. By a member of a public body; Thoughts on public administration; The rights of men and the usurpations of others; Commentary on the book On Crimes and Punishments; Dialogue between a philosopher and a comptroller-general of finance; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Machiavelli and Mystery of State
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Cambridge University Press Philosophy and Government 15721651 26 Ideas in Context Series Number 26
Book SynopsisPhilosophy and Government is a major new contribution to our understanding of European political theory which will challenge the perspectives in which political thought is understood. Framed as a general account of the period between 1572 and 1651 it charts the formation of a distinctively modern political vocabulary, based upon arguments of political necessity and raison d'etat in the work of the major theorists. Whilst Dr Tuck pays detailed attention to Montaigne, Grotius, Hobbes and the theorists of the English Revolution, he also reconsiders the origins of their conceptual vocabulary in humanist thought - particularly scepticism and stoicism - and its development and appropriation during the revolutions in Holland and France. This book will be welcomed by all historians of political thought and those interested in the development of the idea of the state.Trade Review'This is at once a most elegant survey and a highly original work. … this book will be recognised as the most fertile history of political thought in the early modern period.' Ian Harris, Journal of Political StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The Renaissance background; 2. Scepticism, stoicism and raison d'etat; 3. The spread of the new humanism; 4. The alternatives; 5. Hugo Grotius; 6. The English Revolution; 7. Thomas Hobbes; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Andrew Fletcher
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Cambridge University Press Webers Protestant Ethic
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Cambridge University Press A History of Sociological Research Methods in America 19201960
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Cambridge University Press Ferguson
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Cambridge University Press Defining the Common Good Empire Religion and Philosophy in EighteenthCentury Britain 29 Ideas in Context Series Number 29
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Cambridge University Press Plato
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Cambridge University Press Bolingbroke
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Cambridge University Press The Early Political Writings of the German Romantics
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Cambridge University Press King James VI and I Political Writings Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
Book SynopsisJames VI and I united the crowns of England and Scotland. His books are fundamental sources of the principles which underlay the union. In particular, his Basilikon Doron was a best-seller in England and circulated widely on the Continent. Among the most important and influential British writings of their period, the king's works shed light on the political climate of Shakespeare's England and the intellectual background to the civil wars which afflicted Britain in the mid-seventeenth century. James' political philosophy was a moderated absolutism, with an emphasis on the monarch's duty to rule according to law and the public good. Locke quoted his speech to parliament of 1610 approvingly, and Hobbes likewise praised 'our most wise king'. This edition is the first to draw on all the early texts of James' books, with an introduction setting them in their historical context.Trade Review'This important volume is the culmination of many years' work on King James … In his meticulous, profoundly-researched analysis the author does not persuade that James's political and religious strategy was realistic in his time: he does compel us to admire both the king's pertinacity and the quality of his ecumenical vision.' English Historical ReviewTable of ContentsAbbreviations; Introduction; Principal events in James' life; Bibliographical note; 1. Basilikon Doron; 2. The Trew Law of Free Monarchies; 3. Triplici Nodo, Triplex Cuneus. Or an Apologie for the Oath of Allegiance; 4. Speech to parliament of 19 March 1604; 5. Speech to parliament of 9 November 1605; 6. Speech to parliament of 31 March 1607; 7. Speech to parliament of 21 March 1610; 8. Speech in Star Chamber of 20 June 1616; 9. A Meditation upon the 27th, 28th and 29th Verses of the 27th Chapter of Saint Matthew (1619); 10. His Maiesties Declaration, Touching his Proceedings in the Late Assemblie and Conuention of Parliament (1622); Select biographical notes; Glossary; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Ferguson
Book SynopsisAdam Ferguson's Essay on the History of Civil Society is a classic of the Scottish, and European, Enlightenment. Ferguson combines a subtle analysis of modern society with a critique of its abandonment of communal virtues, and boldly attempts to reclaim the tradition of active citizenship in the modern state.Table of Contents1. Of the general characteristics of human nature; 2. Of the history of rude nations; 3. Of the history of policy and arts; 4. Of the consequences that result from advancement of civil and commercial arts; 5. Of the decline of nations; 6. Of corruption and political slavery.
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Cambridge University Press Austin The Province of Jurisprudence Determined Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
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Cambridge University Press The Early Political Writings of the German Romantics Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
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Cambridge University Press History of the Australian Environment Movement
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Cambridge University Press The British Moralists and the Internal Ought
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Cambridge University Press Otto Neurath Philosophy between Science and Politics 38 Ideas in Context Series Number 38
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Cambridge University Press Colonial Psychiatry and the African Mind
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Cambridge University Press The British Idealists
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Cambridge University Press Kropotkin
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Cambridge University Press William Harveys Natural Philosophy
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Cambridge University Press Utopias of the British Enlightenment
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Cambridge University Press Guicciardini Dialogue Government Dialogue on the Government of Florence Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
Book SynopsisThis is the first translation into English of Guicciardini's Dialogue on the Government of Florence. Written in the early 1520s by the author of the famous History of Italy, as well as a History of Florence and Political Maxims and Reflections, this dialogue presents what is arguably the most searching and comprehensive analysis of the politics of his times. Like Machiavelli, his contemporary and friend, Guicciardini rejects classical republican arguments in the name of the new political realism and acknowledges the important role of patronage and graft in contemporary politics and the illegitimacy of nearly all forms of political power. In this Dialogue he provides one of the clearest expositions of the term 'reason of state', which he was one of the first to employ and which he uses to justify the priority of state interest over private morality and religion.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction; Principal events in Guicciardini's life; Bibliographical note; Dialogue on the government of Florence; Preface; Book I; Book II; Appendix: selected maxims; Biographical notes; Glossary; Index of names; Index of subjects.
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Cambridge University Press Loyseau
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Cambridge University Press Stirner The Ego and its Own
Book SynopsisA striking polemic attacking left Hegelianism, liberalism, and socialism, rebutted in detail by Marx. Stirner himself has been portrayed as a precursor of Nietzsche, and of existentialism and as an individualist anarchist. A new edition with contextualizing introduction, notes and chronology.Trade Review"Recommended as a classic in anarchist thought. This is the best edition available." --Reader's ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; Principal events in Stirner's life; Further reading; Note on the translation; The Ego and its own; Bibliographical and other notes on the text; Index of subjects; Index of proper names.
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Cambridge University Press Fenelon
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Cambridge University Press History of the Australian Environment Movement
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Cambridge University Press The Savage Within
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Cambridge University Press Faces of Degeneration A European Disorder c1848c1918 A European Disorder c18481918 15 Ideas in Context Series Number 15
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Cambridge University Press The British Moralists and the Internal Ought
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Cambridge University Press The British Idealists
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Cambridge University Press Christianity and Revolutionary Europe 1750 1830
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Cambridge University Press Sidney
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Cambridge University Press Comte
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Cambridge University Press Bagehot
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Cambridge University Press The Invention of Politics in Colonial Malaya
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Cambridge University Press Christianity and Revolutionary Europe 17501830 25 New Approaches to European History
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Cambridge University Press The Idea of Luxury A Conceptual and Historical Investigation 30 Ideas in Context Series Number 30
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Cambridge University Press The German Idea of Militarism
Book SynopsisThis 1994 book examines the development of the modern idea of militarism from its inception in the 1860s until the outbreak of World War I. Imperial Germany witnessed a major controversy over the issue, as the arms race and the military-industrial complex displaced more traditional concerns about authoritarian rule, and militarism gradually acquired its modern meaning.Trade Review"The book is based on a wide variety of excellent sources, some in archives not usually consulted, such as the Brandenburg provincial archives, Potsdam, or the protocols of the Social Democratic party congresses. The notes are complete and useful. It is clearly written..." Central European History"Stargardt has written a very solid monograph on an important topic, filled with useful and even surprising information." Laird M. Easton, German Book Reviews"...Nicholas Stargardt, author of The German Idea of Militarism, merits considerable praise. Stargardt goes classical intellectual history one better, however, by connecting the metamorphosis of the idea itself to physical as well as intellectual developments. ...the book is guranteed to stimulate the informed general reader and provide graduate seminars with ample material for any number of lively discussion." Antulio J. Echevarria, II, Jrnl of Military HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. The Anti-Militarist Tradition: 1. The Reich, democracy and cheap government; 2. National interest and national defence; 3. Karl Kautsky's theory of militarism; Part II. The New Militarism: 4. Karl Liebknecht and the end of democratic anti-militarism; 5. The economics of armament; 6. The turn to pacifism, 1907–14; Conclusion.
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