This collection explores the richness of Scottish intellectual life, its currents and controversies, from the French Revolution to the First World War, focusing in particular on the legacy of the Scottish Enlightenment. Offering a series of cuttin...Loe edasi...
Sari: Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Feb-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108493109)
A fresh modern translation of a major French Revolutionary text, whose arguments for popular sovereignty are couched in the form of an Oriental dream-tale. This is a forgotten bestseller in the history of political thought which was translated by Tho...Loe edasi...
Volney was once as influential as Tom Paine, and the author of one of the most popular works of the French Revolutionary era. The Ruins of Empires makes an argument for popular sovereignty, couched in the alluring and accessible form of an Oriental d...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781474493031)
This collection explores the richness of Scottish intellectual life, its currents and controversies, from the French Revolution to the First World War, focusing in particular on the legacy of the Scottish Enlightenment. Offering a series of cuttin...Loe edasi...
The continuing churn of political advisers in Donald Trumps White House serve as a reminder of the salience and relevance of political advice. Political Advice: Past, Present and Future brings several very different voices to bear on the p...Loe edasi...
Political advice has never seemed more prominent – or more problematic. This volume of essays speaks to a contemporary concern, set in a wider historical context. Political Advice: Past, Present and Future brings several very different voices to bear...Loe edasi...
Mastering Sales is a comprehensive overview of Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code. Written in clear, easy-to-understand language, it navigates the reader through the various provisions of the Code, from contract formation to performance, breach...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Jan-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198736233)
This volume provides a fresh perspective on the ways in which writers have dealt with the relationship between literature and union, especially in Scottish literary contexts. It interrogates, from various angles, the assumption of a binary opposition...Loe edasi...
This book explores the intellectual contexts for Mr Casaubon, a central character in George Eliots classic and much-loved novel Middlemarch....Loe edasi...
John Galt (1779-1839) was a contemporary of Sir Walter Scott and Jane Austen, a friend and biographer of Lord Byron, and a political novelist and chronicler of Scottish life. This International Companion examines Galts writings in the social, econom...Loe edasi...
Ronnie Young, Corey E. Andrews, Ralph McLean, Kenneth Simpson, David Allan, Pam Perkins, Catherine Jones, Ruth Perry, Charles Bradford Bow, Colin Kidd...
Sari: Studies in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Nov-2016, Hardback, Kirjastus: Bucknell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781611488005)
This volume takes a fresh look at the literary culture of the Scottish Enlightenment and the wider impact of imaginative literature on Enlightenment culture in general. Covering key authors and work in areas as varied as philosophy, medic...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Oct-2016, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781107027718)
While the efforts of George Eliots fictional Mr Casaubon to create a Key to All Mythologies may seem fruitless and obscure, Colin Kidds interdisciplinary study excavates Casaubons hinterland and illuminates the fierce ideological war which raged...Loe edasi...
A major survey of Scotlands dominant ideology over the past three centuries by one of its leading historians. Although the dominant political ideology in Scotland between 1707 and the present, unionism has suffered serious neglect. One of th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Dec-2008, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9780521880572)
Although the dominant political ideology in Scotland between 1707 and the present, unionism has suffered serious neglect. One of the most distinguished Scottish historians of our time looks afresh at this central theme in Britains history, politics...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Sep-2006, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9780521793247)
Study of the changing relationship between race and theology in the Protestant Atlantic world since 1600. This book revolutionises our understanding of race. Building upon the insight that races are products of culture rather than biology, Co...Loe edasi...
Study of the changing relationship between race and theology in the Protestant Atlantic world since 1600. This book revolutionises our understanding of race. Building upon the insight that races are products of culture rather than biology, Co...Loe edasi...
A comprehensive coverage of ethnic and national identities in the British world between 1600 and 1790. This book examines the status and uses of ethnicity in political debate during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the era that immed...Loe edasi...
This book examines how the dramatic intellectual developments of the Scottish Enlightenment undermined a patriotic reading of Scotlands history, and shows how this had long-term consequences in the failure of the nineteenth-century Scottish intellig...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Mar-1999, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9780521624039)
A comprehensive coverage of ethnic and national identities in the British world between 1600 and 1790. This book examines the status and uses of ethnicity in political debate during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the era that immed...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Sep-1993, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9780521434843)
This book examines how the dramatic intellectual developments of the Scottish Enlightenment undermined a patriotic reading of Scotlands history, and shows how this had long-term consequences in the failure of the nineteenth-century Scottish intellig...Loe edasi...
