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The Origins of American Social Science
Focusing on the disciplines of economics, sociology, political science, and history, this book examines how American social science came to model itself on natural science and …
That Noble Dream
The aspiration to relate the past ‘as it really happened’ has been the central goal of American professional historians since the late nineteenth century. In this remarkable …
Republic of Women
Republic of Women recaptures a lost chapter in the narrative of intellectual history. It tells the story of a transnational network of female scholars who were active members of …
The Empire of Chance
The Empire of Chance tells how quantitative ideas of chance transformed the natural and social sciences, as well as daily life over the last three centuries. A continuous narrative …
The History of Political Thought in National Context
In this 2001 volume a distinguished international team of contributors characterises the nature of, and developments in, the history of political thought in their respective …
Models as Mediators
Models as Mediators discusses the ways in which models function in modern science, particularly in the fields of physics and economics. Models play a variety of roles in the …
The History of the Arthasastra
The Arthasastra is the foundational text of Indic political thought and ancient India's most important treatise on statecraft and governance. It is traditionally believed that …
Philosophy in History
The sixteen essays in this volume confront the current debate about the relationship between philosophy and its history. On the one hand intellectual historians commonly accuse …
Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of History
This book explores Friedrich Nietzsche's understanding of modern political culture and his position in the history of modern political thought. Surveying Nietzsche's entire …
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 …
Faces of Degeneration
This book investigates the specific conception and descent of a language of ‘degeneration’ from 1848–1918, with particular reference to France, Italy and England. Daniel Pick shows …
An Approach to Political Philosophy
An 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 …