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Virtue, commerce, and history : essays on political thought and history, chiefly in the eighteenth century / J.G.A. Pocock

Author
Pocock, J. G. A. (John Greville Agard), 1924-
Additional Titles
Virtue, Commerce, & History
Published
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1985.
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1 online resource (x, 321 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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Contents
Virtues, rights, and manners: a model for historians of political thought -- Authority and property : the question of liberal origins -- 1776 : the revolution against Parliament -- Modes of political and historical time in early eighteenth-century England -- Mobility of property and the rise of eighteenth-century sociology -- Hume and the American Revolution : the dying thoughts of a North Briton -- Gibbon's Decline and fall and the world view of the late enlightenment -- Josiah Tucker on Burke, Locke, and Price : a study in the varieties of eighteenth-century conservatism -- Political economy of Burke's analysis of the French Revolution -- Varieties of Whiggism from exclusion to reform : a history of ideology and discourse. From the first Whigs to the true Whigs. From the financial revolution to the Scottish enlightenment. From the Seven Years' War to the Constitution of the United States. From the response to the American Revolution to the reaction to the French Revolution. From Cobbett's History of the Reformation to Macaulay's History of England.
Summary
This book collects essays by Professor Pocock concerned principally with the history of British political thought in the eighteenth century. Several of the essays have been previously published (though they have not all been widely available), and several appear here for the first time in print.
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9780511720505 (ebook)
9780521257015 (hardback)
9780521276603 (paperback)
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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