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Cambridge University Press Political Thought in SeventeenthCentury Ireland
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Cambridge University Press Explaining Human Origins
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Cambridge University Press Political Culture in the Reign of Elizabeth I Queen and Commonwealth 15581585 56 Ideas in Context Series Number 56
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Rawls
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Cambridge University Press Encyclopaedic Visions
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Cambridge University Press Toleration in Enlightenment Europe
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Jewish Philosophy
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Cambridge University Press Unifying Scientific Theories
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Cambridge University Press The American Language of Rights 54 Ideas in Context Series Number 54
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Cambridge University Press Kant on Freedom Law and Happiness
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Cambridge University Press Kant on Freedom Law and Happiness
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Rawls
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Cambridge University Press Explaining Human Origins
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Cambridge University Press Books and the Sciences in History
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Cambridge University Press Natural Law Theories in the Early Enlightenment 58 Ideas in Context Series Number 58
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Cambridge University Press Bernard Williams
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Cambridge University Press German Philosophy 1760 1860
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Cambridge University Press The Philosophy of Peter Abelard
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Cambridge University Press Paine Political Writings Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
Book SynopsisThomas Paine was arguably the single most influential political writer in the English-speaking world during the great upheavals of the American and French Revolutions. His writings here reappear in the acclaimed Cambridge Texts series. For this revised and updated edition the distinguished intellectual historian Bruce Kuklick brings together an expanded collection of the classic Paine texts - Common Sense, Rights of Man, and The Age of Reason - as well as the first of Paine's papers on The Crisis of 1776. A brief chronology, updated notes for further reading, and a succinct and lucid introduction to the principal themes of each text offer further support to the student reader. This selection will appeal to students in a variety of disciplines from political theory to American history, and enable further generations to engage at first hand with one of the most gifted and popular expositors of radical ideas ever to generate mass support.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Principal events in Paine's life; Bibliographical note; Note on the text; Common Sense (1776); The Crisis, Number I (1776); Rights of Man, Part I (1791); Rights of Man, Part II (1792); The Age of Reason, Part First (1794).
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Cambridge University Press Continental Philosophy of Social Science
Book SynopsisContinental Philosophy of Social Science contrasts the continental approach to social science with the Anglo-American tradition. Sherratt argues for the importance of an historical understanding of the Continental tradition in order to appreciate its humanist character. This will serve as the essential textbook for courses in philosophy or social sciences.Trade ReviewThis ambitious and wide-ranging book asks what recent continental philosophy can contribute to our understanding of the social sciences. Yvonne Sherratt argues that continental thought since the late nineteenth century offers a distinctive way of reflecting on social science. She sets out to explain what is unique about the continental approach, to distinguish its main strands, and to show that it is a promising alternative to Anglo-American work in the field. Sherratt's subject is important, and a discussion of it is long overdue....We should be glad that someone has written a book on continental philosophy of social science. The figures Sherratt discusses have a great deal to teach us about the social sciences. Her book will provide a valuable service if it provokes further discussion of this important but neglected topic. Sherratt also identifies a promising way of thinking about this topic. The notion of humanism is a helpful frame for making sense of continental philosophy of social science, and for explaining what is distinctive about it. --Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2006.09.08Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. The Tradition of Hermeneutics: 1. Ancient hermeneutics; 2. Biblical hermeneutics; 3. German philosophical hermeneutics: Enlightenment and Romanticism; 4. German philosophical hermeneutics: phenomenology and Existentialism; 5. Continental philosophical hermeneutics post-war; Part II. The Tradition of Genealogy: 1. The history of genealogy: Nietzsche; 2. The theory of genealogy: Foucault; 3. Application of genealogy; Part III. The Tradition of Critical Theory: 1. The history of critical theory; 2. Critical theory I; 3. Critical theory II.
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Cambridge University Press Judaism and Enlightenment
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Constant
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Cambridge University Press From Politics to Reason of State
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Cambridge University Press The Search for Neofascism
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Puritanism Cambridge
Book Synopsis'Puritan' was originally a term of contempt, and 'Puritanism' has often been stereotyped by critics and admirers alike. As a distinctive and particularly intense variety of early modern Reformed Protestantism, it was a product of acute tensions within the post-Reformation Church of England. But it was never monolithic or purely oppositional, and its impact reverberated far beyond seventeenth-century England and New England. This Companion broadens our understanding of Puritanism, showing how students and scholars might engage with it from new angles and uncover the surprising diversity that fermented beneath its surface. The book explores issues of gender, literature, politics and popular culture in addition to addressing the Puritans' core concerns such as theology and devotional praxis, and coverage extends to Irish, Welsh, Scottish and European versions of Puritanism as well as to English and American practice. It challenges readers to re-evaluate this crucial tradition within its wTrade Review'This is a particularly important volume that takes students beyond the traditional views of Puritanism to demonstrate its intense diversity.' The Historical Association'… no recent survey has done justice to the recent flowering of scholarship. This book now fills that gap admirably. It brings together essays from 20 authors, who focus their remarkable expertise in short but scholarly chapters.' Church Times'For … spiritual and … academic students of Puritanism, Coffey and his co-editor, Paul C. H. Lim, have compiled a reference work of exceptional scope and balance.' Church History' … a fine addition to the series and a cause for celebration …' The Journal of Ecclesiastical History'… a useful one-volume compendium of a notorious subject … an important work…' Leif Dixon, English Historical Review'… the whole volume is an excellent introduction to early modern Puritanism which demonstrates its rich diversity, impact and legacy in this period and beyond.' Kenneth Gibson, History'… an excellent overview … both a perfect introduction for the undergraduate student and useful to the specialist.' Kyle DiRoberto, Sixteenth Century JournalTable of ContentsIntroduction John Coffey and Paul C. H. Lim; Part I. English Puritanism: 1. Antipuritanism Patrick Collinson; 2. The growth of English Puritanism John Craig; 3. Early Stuart Puritanism Tom Webster; 4. The Puritan revolution John Morrill; 5. Later Stuart Puritanism John Spurr; Part II. Beyond England: 6. Puritanism and the Continental Reformed Churches Anthony Milton; 7. The Puritan experiment in New England, 1630–60 Francis J. Bremer; 8. New England, 1660–1730 David D. Hall; 9. Puritanism in Ireland and Wales Crawford Gribben; 10. The problem of Scotland's Puritans Margo Todd; Part III. Major Themes: 11. Practical divinity and spirituality Charles Hambrick-Stowe; 12. Puritan polemical divinity and doctrinal controversy Dewey D. Wallace, Jr.; 13. Puritans and the Church of England: historiography and ecclesiology Paul C. H. Lim; 14. Radical Puritanism, c.1558–1660 David R. Como; 15. Puritan millenarianism in old and New England Jeffrey K. Jue; 16. The Godly and popular culture Alexandra Walsham; 17. Puritanism and gender Ann Hughes; 18. Puritanism and literature N. H. Keeble; Part IV. Puritanism and Posterity: 19. Puritan legacies John Coffey; 20. The historiography of Puritanism Peter Lake.
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Cambridge University Press A History of Social Psychology
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Cambridge University Press Social Theory
Book SynopsisAn unrivalled overview of social theory and its development. Two of the world's leading sociologists provide an excellent background to the most important social theorists and theories in contemporary sociological thought, with crisp summaries of the main books, arguments and controversies in the English, French and German literature.Trade Review'Social Theory does a remarkable job of making a complex and sometimes difficult subject matter into a clear and continuously interesting book. Without claiming a false neutrality Joas and Knöbl combine exposition and criticism in a way that is consistently fair even to positions that are farthest from their own. This should be an indispensable book for at least a generation.' Robert N. Bellah, University of California, Berkeley, and co-author of Habits of the Heart'Possibly the most comprehensive and critical analysis of the development of Social Theory in the second half of the twentieth century - bringing together European and American developments showing their common roots in the classical problematique and the continual development thereof.' S. N. Eisenstadt, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Van Leer Jerusalem Institute'… this fascinating book will provide a wealth of conceptual resources for a long time.' Sociologica'Hans Joas and Wolfgang Knöbl's Social Theory: Twenty Introductory Lectures is a remarkable book. There is nothing that I know that comes anywhere near to it in the contemporary landscape of social theory. [It] is, in addition to other things, an intellectually heavyweight textbook for graduate students and professors, providing a summation of, and critical commentary on, virtually all the major and minor currents in social theory since the middle of the twentieth century.' Rob Stones, Journal of Classical SociologyTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. What is theory?; 2. The classical attempt at synthesis: Talcott Parsons; 3. Parsons on the road to normativist functionalism; 4. Parsons and the elaboration of normativist functionalism; 5. Neo-utilitarianism; 6. Interpretive approaches (1): symbolic interactionism; 7. Interpretive approaches (2): ethnomethodology; 8. Conflict sociology and conflict theory; 9. Habermas and critical theory; 10. Habermas' 'theory of communicative action'; 11. Niklas Luhmann's radicalization of functionalism; 12. Anthony Giddens' theory of structuration and the new British sociology of power; 13. The renewal of Parsonianism and modernization theory; 14. Structuralism and poststructuralism; 15. Between structuralism and theory of practice: the cultural sociology of Pierre Bourdieu; 16. French anti-structuralists (Cornelius Castoriadis, Alain Touraine and Paul Ricoeur); 17. Feminist social theories; 18. A crisis of modernity? New diagnoses (Ulrich Beck, Zygmunt Bauman, Robert Bellah, and the debate between liberals and communitarians); 19. Neopragmatism; 20. How things stand; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press The Wealth of Ideas A History of Economic Thought
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Cambridge University Press WE B Du Bois
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Cambridge University Press Hegels Phenomenology of Spirit
Book SynopsisThis book sets Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit in the context of the history of modern philosophy and shows how its major argument is developed. This guide to one of the most complex and important works of nineteenth-century philosophy will be of interest to all students and teachers working in this area.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Knowledge; 3. Freedom; 4. Idealism; 5. Method; 6. Theory; 7. Practice; 8. Culture; 9. Results.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Scepticism
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Cambridge University Press God and the Reach of Reason
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Cambridge University Press An Introduction to the Unitarian and Universalist Traditions
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Cambridge University Press Conceptualising the Social World Principles of Sociological Analysis
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Cambridge University Press Political Thought and History
Book SynopsisJohn Pocock is arguably the most influential historian of ideas of modern times. These essays are selected from a lifetime of thinking about political thought, and how we should study it in history. Together they constitute a collection that any serious student of politics and intellectual history needs to possess.Trade Review'Although his writing demands a great deal of concentration … nowhere is it other than fresh, cogent and provocative. … is usefully illustrative, and offers insights that all who aspire to the study of intellectual history (in its broadest sense) can heed.' English Historical ReviewTable of ContentsForeword; Part I. Political Thought as History: 1. The history of political thought: a methodological enquiry; 2. Working on ideas in time; 3. Verbalizing a political act: towards a politics of speech; 4. Political ideas as historical events; political philosophers as historical actors; 5. The reconstruction of discourse: towards the historiography of political thought; 6. The concept of a language and the metier d'historien: some considerations on practice; 7. Texts as events: reflections on the history of political thought; 8. Quentin Skinner: the history of politics and the politics of history; Part II. History as Political Thought: 9. The origins of study of the past: a comparative approach; 10. Time, institutions and action: an essay on traditions and their understanding; 11. The historian as political actor in polity, society and academy; 12. The politics of history: the subaltern and the subversive; 13. The politics of historiography.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature
Book SynopsisFrom the publication of More's Utopia in 1516 to present day literary evocations of terrifying futures, this Companion traces the historical development and evolution of utopianism. Covering all major themes including feminism, science fiction and non-Western utopianism, the volume presents a balanced overview of this complex and provocative genre.Table of ContentsPreface Gregory Claeys; Brief chronology of key works of utopian literature and thought; Part I. History: 1. The concept of utopia Fátima Vieira; 2. Thomas More's Utopia: sources, legacy and interpretation J. C. Davis; 3. Utopianism after More: the Renaissance and Enlightenment Nicole Pohl; 4. Varieties of nineteenth-century utopias Kenneth M. Roemer; 5. The origins of dystopia: Wells, Huxley and Orwell Gregory Claeys; Part II. Literature: 6. Utopia, dystopia and science fiction Peter Fitting; 7. Utopia and Romance Patrick Parrinder; 8. Feminism and utopianism Alessa Johns; 9. Colonial and post-colonial utopias Lyman Tower Sargent; 10. 'Non-western' utopian traditions Jacqueline Dutton; 11. Ecology and utopia Brian Stableford; Further reading.
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Cambridge University Press Hobbes and Republican Liberty
Book SynopsisQuentin Skinner is one of the foremost historians in the world, and in Hobbes and Republican Liberty he offers a dazzling comparison of two rival theories about the nature of human liberty. The first originated in classical antiquity, and lay at the heart of the Roman republican tradition of public life. Thomas Hobbes was the most formidable enemy of this pattern of thought, and his successive attempts to discredit it constitute a truly epochal moment in the history of Anglophone political thought. Hobbes and Republican Liberty develops several of the themes announced by Quentin Skinner in his celebrated inaugural lecture on Liberty before Liberalism of 1997. Cogent, engaged, accessible, and indeed exhilarating, this new book will appeal to readers of history, politics, and philosophy at all levels from upper-undergraduate upwards, and provides an excellent introduction to the work of one of the most celebrated thinkers of our time.Trade Review'… Skinner breathes new life into historical Republican thinking… Skinner's explanation of the exposition gives logical shape to Hobbes - Skinner gets down the polemical force of 'Leviathan' and sets it free. … Skinner's circumspection reconstructs Hobbes' arguments, and proves that James Harrington was right in his criticism of Hobbes - his won evidence puts his 'freedom theory' to blame. A definition is not a demonstration.' Frankfurther Allgemeine Zeitung' … characteristically lucid, elegant and, on its own terms, persuasive.' London Review of Books'It is not necessary to share Skinner's preoccupations or enthusiasms to recognise the virtues of this book. It is elegant and erudite.' The Times Literary Supplement'… when the Regius Professor of Modern History of Cambridge purports to offer a brand new reading of arguable the earliest significant work of English political philosophy, the mere possibility of centuries of conventional reading being set aside will prompt controversy and much deserved attention. … Skinner's new book offers us a concept of actual or practical human possibilities in our liberty or freedom that better identifies our natural and inalienable human rights than does a pure or absolute definition of liberty or freedom.' Supreme Court of Queensland Library Review of Books'… surely a valuable contribution to the existing body of Hobbes scholarship. Rich in well-documented references to figures of slight repute, but whose influence on Hobbes's thought can hardly be disregarded, this work doubtlessly constitutes one of the most important accounts of the Hobbesian idea of freedom … this excellent book does itself contribute significantly to our understanding of Hobbes's notion of 'liberty' in the framework of his oeuvre and as such ought to take an important place in the existing body of Hobbes literature.' CEU Political Science JournalTable of ContentsIllustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on the text; Preface; 1. Introductory: Hobbes's humanist beginnings; 2. The Elements of Law: liberty described; 3. The Elements of Law: liberty circumscribed; 4. De cive: liberty defined; 5. Leviathan: liberty redefined; 6. Liberty and political obligation; Bibliographies; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Wealth and Life Essays on the Intellectual History of Political Economy in Britain 18481914 95 Ideas in Context Series Number 95
Book SynopsisDonald Winch completes the intellectual history of political economy begun in Riches and Poverty (1996). A major theme addressed in both volumes is the 'bitter argument between economists and human beings' provoked by Britain's industrial revolution. Winch takes the argument from Mill's contributions to the 'condition-of-England' debate in 1848 through to the work on economic wellbeing of Alfred Marshall. The writings of major figures of the period are examined in a sequence of interlinked essays that ends with consideration of the twentieth-century fate of the debate between utilitarians and romantics in the hands of Leavis, Williams and Thompson. Donald Winch is one of Britain's most distinguished historians of ideas, and Wealth and Life brings to fruition a long-standing interest in the history of those intellectual pursuits that have shaped the understanding of Britain as an industrial society, and continue to influence cultural responses to the moral questions posed by economic liTrade Review'In this wide-ranging yet tightly argued and frequently brilliant work, Donald Winch presents an intellectual history of British political economy, from 1848–1914. … Winch's work, which combines fine-grained detail and lapidary prose with not inconsiderable empathy for this subjects, is a worthy addition to this exchange. It represents if not the definitive, certainly a definitive intellectual history of British political economy, from 1848–1914. Historians of economics and literature alike will profit greatly from this book.' Storia del pensiero economicoTable of ContentsPrologue: economists and human beings; Part I. Mill's Principles: 1. Sentimental enemies, advanced intellects, and falling profits; 2. Wild natural beauty, the religion of humanity, and unearned increments; Part II. Three Responses to Mill: 3. 'Poor cretinous wretch': Ruskin's antagonism; 4. 'Last man of the ante-Mill period': Walter Bagehot; 5. 'As much a matter of heart as head': Jevons's aversion; Part III. Free Exchange and Economic Socialism: 6. Louis Mallet and the philosophy of free exchange; 7. Henry Sidgwick and economic socialism; Part IV. Foxwell and Marshall: 8. The old generation of political economists and the new; 9. Wealth, wellbeing and the academic economist; Part V. Heretics and Professionals: 10. 'A composition of successive heresies': J. A. Hobson; 11. Academic minds; Appendix: Mr Gradgrind and Jerusalem; Bibliographic abbreviations and notes.
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Cambridge University Press Barbarians Savages and Empires
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Cambridge University Press RECENT ADVANCES IN IGA NEPHROPATHY
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Cambridge University Press The Modern Philosophical Revolution The Luminosity of Existence
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Cambridge University Press Liberal Beginnings Making a Republic for the Moderns
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Cambridge University Press The Colonial American Origins of Modern Democratic Thought
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s Cambridge Companions to Literature
Book SynopsisThe French Revolution ignited the biggest debate on politics and society in Britain since the Civil War 150 years earlier. The public controversy lasted from the initial, positive reaction to French events in 1789 to the outlawing of the radical societies in 1799. This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. It contains thirteen specially commissioned essays by an international team of historians and literary scholars, a chronology of events and publications, and an extensive guide to further reading. Six essays concentrate on the principal writers of the Revolution controversy: Burke, Paine, Godwin and Wollstonecraft. Others deal with popular radical culture, counter-revolutionary culture, the distinctive contribution of women writers, novels of opinion, drama, and poetry. This volume will serve as a comprehensive yet accessible reference work for students, advancTrade Review'The questions [this book] raises are central to any adequate understanding of the literature of the 1790s, and central, I suspect, to an understanding of the relationship between literature and politics in any period. For that reason, and for the high quality of the individual essays, it is to be welcomed.' Richard Cronin, Notes and QueriesTable of ContentsChronology; Preface; 1. The political context H. T. Dickinson; 2. Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France David Bromwich; 3. Paine, Rights of Man Mark Philp; 4. Burke and Paine: contrasts David Duff; 5. Wollstonecraft, Vindications and Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution Jane Rendall; 6. Godwin, Political Justice Pamela Clemit; 7. Wollstonecraft and Godwin: dialogues Nancy E. Johnson; 8. Popular radical culture Jon Mee; 9. Counter-revolutionary culture Kevin Gilmartin; 10. Women's voices Gina Luria Walker; 11. Novels of opinion M. O. Grenby; 12. Revolutionary drama Gillian Russell; 13. Politics and poetry Simon Bainbridge; Guide to further reading; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Civil Religion
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Cambridge University Press Alexis de Tocqueville the First Social Scientist
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Cambridge University Press To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth
Book SynopsisThe book demonstrates the vital role of played by legal imagination in the history of European State-formation in 13001870. After lawyers had learned to connect sovereignty with property rights at home, both ideas would eventually expand and lay the groundwork for the modern international order and global capitalism.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Legal Imagination in a Christian World – Ruling France, c. 1300; 2. The Political Philosophy of jus gentium – the Expansion of Spain, 1524–1559; 3. Italian Lessons – ius gentium and Reason of States; 4. The Rule of Law – Grotius; 5. Governing Sovereignty – Negotiating French 'Absolutism' in Europe, 1625–1715; 6. Reason, Resolution, Restoration – European Public Law, 1715–1804; 7. Colonies, Companies, Slaves – French dominium in the World, 1627–1804; 8. The Law and Economics of State-Building – England, c. 1450–c. 1650; 9. 'Giving Law to the World – England, c. 1635–c. 1830; 10. Global Law – Ruling the British Empire; 11. A Science of State-Machines – ius naturae et gentium as a German Discipline, 1500–1758; 12. The End of Natural Law – German Freedom, 1734–1821; Epilogue.
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Cambridge University Press Political Ideology in the Arab World Accommodation and Transformation
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