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William Robertson and the Expansion of Empire
William Robertson (1721–1793) was a leading historical figure of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment and one of the triumvirate of historians, along with David Hume and Edward …
Wealth and Life
Donald 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 …
Virtue, Commerce, and History
Essays by Professor Pocock concerned principally with the history of eighteenth-century British political thought.
Victorian Visions of Global Order
This wide-ranging and original 2007 study provides an insight into the climate of political thought during the lifespan of what was, at this time, the most powerful empire in …
Utilitarianism in the Age of Enlightenment
This is the first book-length study of one of the most influential traditions in eighteenth-century Anglophone moral and political thought, 'theological utilitarianism'. Niall …
Utilitarianism and the New Liberalism
In this study, David Weinstein argues that nineteenth-century English New Liberalism was considerably more indebted to classical English utilitarianism than the received view …
Trust in Early Modern International Political Thought, 1598–1713
Can there ever be trust between states? This study explores the concept of trust across different and sometimes antagonistic genres of international political thought during the …
Toleration in Conflict
The concept of toleration plays a central role in pluralistic societies. It designates a stance which permits conflicts over beliefs and practices to persist while at the same time …
Thinking about Property
This book explores ancient 'foundational' texts relating to property and their reception by later thinkers in their various contexts up to the early nineteenth century. The texts …
The Young Karl Marx
The Young Karl Marx is an innovative and important study of Marx's early writings. These writings provide the fascinating spectacle of a powerful and imaginative intellect …
The Young Derrida and French Philosophy, 1945–1968
In this powerful study Edward Baring sheds fresh light on Jacques Derrida, one of the most influential yet controversial intellectuals of the twentieth century. Reading Derrida …
The Worlds of Renaissance Melancholy
Angus Gowland investigates the theory of melancholy and its many applications in the Renaissance by means of a wide-ranging contextual analysis of Robert Burton's encyclopaedic …