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Irish Political Thought And The Union - Visions Of Representative Government, 1798â€“1879

by Colin W. (University Of Sheffield) Reid

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 Moving beyond binary nationalist and unionist narratives, this study explores political thought through ideological battles over government to reframe nineteenth-century Irish history. Colin Reid reveals how Irish thinkers grappled with sovereignty, representation and governance. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
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Irish Political Thought And The Union - Visions Of Representative Government, 1798â€“1879

by Colin W. (University Of Sheffield) Reid

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 Moving beyond binary nationalist and unionist narratives, this study explores political thought through ideological battles over government to reframe nineteenth-century Irish history. Colin Reid reveals how Irish thinkers grappled with sovereignty, representation and governance. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
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The People'S Two Powers - Public Opinion And Popular Sovereignty From Rousseau To Liberal Democracy

by Arthur (Universite Libre De Bruxelles) Ghins

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 Examines the emergence of democracy and liberalism in modern France, exploring the distinction between public opinion and popular sovereignty. Arthur Ghins considers how democracy was first rejected, then associated with the idea of rule by public opinion by liberals, culminating in the invention of 'liberal democracy' in the 1860s.
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The State In Machiavelli

by Peter (University Of California, Los Angeles) Stacey

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 This innovative study reconstructs Machiavelli's theory of the state as the core of his political philosophy. Spanning a millennium and a half of political, social, moral, rhetorical and aesthetic developments, Peter Stacey offers a new intellectual history of European political thought in which to contextualise Machiavelli's central concepts.
Freedom And Perfection - German Political Thought From Leibniz To Marx

by Douglas (University Of Ottawa And University Of Sydney) Moggach

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 This historical study examines perfectionism and its political implications in the German lands between 1650â€"1850. Douglas Moggach demonstrates how a new perfectionism of freedom arose from Kant's critiques of older ethical-political theories, highlighting the central importance of Leibniz for later theorists of the state, society, and economy.
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Hegel And The Representative Constitution

by Elias (Universitat Rostock, Germany) Buchetmann

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 This important volume provides the first comprehensive historical discussion of the institutional dimension of G. W. F. Hegel's political thought. It also provides an accessible entry point into the Philosophy of Right and sheds new light on the history of democratic theory in early nineteenth-century Europe.
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A Caribbean Enlightenment - Intellectual Life In The British And French Colonial Worlds, 1750â€“1792

by April G. (American University, Washington Dc) Shelford

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 Explores the intersection of Enlightenment ideas and colonial realities amongst White, male colonists in the eighteenth-century French and British Caribbean. For them, becoming 'enlightened' meant diversion, status seeking, satisfying curiosity about the tropical environment, and making sense of the brutal societies and the enslaved Africans.
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The Jewish Imperial Imagination - Leo Baeck And German-Jewish Thought

by Yaniv (University Of Florida) Feller

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 Leo Baeck (1873â€"1956) was a famous Jewish thinker and the leader of German Jewry during the Holocaust. This book offers the first interpretation of his religious thought as political, showing how Baeck, along with German-Jewish thought more broadly, cannot be properly understood without the imperial context.
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The Hidden Origins Of The German Enlightenment

by Martin (University Of Erfurt) Mulsow

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 The early German Enlightenment is seen as a reform movement that broke free from traditional ties without falling into anti-Christian and extremist positions. But how did the works which were radical and critical of religion during this period come about? And how do they relate to the dominant 'moderate' Enlightenment?
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Herder And Enlightenment Politics

by Eva (University Of Tartu) Piirimae

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 By situating his evolving ideas in pan-European debates on the problems and prospects of modern European politics, this book proposes a radically new interpretation of the political thought of Johann Gottfried Herder, and shows that Herder was deeply committed to finding ways to achieve moral and political reform in Russia, Germany and Europe.
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Experimental Philosophy And The Origins Of Empiricism

by Alberto Vanzo e Peter R. (University Of Sydney) Anstey

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 Ranging from the early Royal Society of London in the seventeenth century to the uptake of experimental philosophy in Paris and Berlin in the eighteenth, this book is the first integrated history of early modern experimental philosophy, one of the most significant developments of the period.
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The Power Of Necessity - Reason Of State In The Spanish Monarchy, C. 1590â€“1650

by Lisa (University Of Amsterdam) Kattenberg

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 Exploring reason of state in a global monarchy, The Power of Necessity examines how thinkers and agents in the Spanish monarchy navigated the tension between political pragmatism and moral-religious principle, bridging the persistent gap between theory and practice in political thought.
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Radical Democracy In Modern Indian Political Thought

by Tejas (University Of California, Los Angeles) Parasher

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 Drawing on figures ranging from Gandhi to the leaders of the Indian socialist movement, Radical Democracy in Modern Indian Political Thought explores the diversity of political futures imagined at the end of the British Empire and reinterprets the history of representative democracy in South Asia.
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The Limits Of Erudition - The Old Testament In Post-Reformation Europe

by Timothy (Ku Leuven) Twining

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 This panoramic account of post-Reformation biblical scholarship presents a major new history of how the Old Testament was considered and contested across Europe. Drawing upon a mass of archival research, Timothy Twining vividly recreates the practice of early modern scholarship and reestablishes the importance of Catholic intellectual culture.
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A Republic Of Sympathy - Sophie De Grouchy'S Politics And Philosophy, 1785â€“1815

by Kathleen (European University Institute, Florence) Mccrudden Illert

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 Sophie de Grouchy was a political philosopher and activist at the centre of Revolutionary events in France between 1789 and 1815. Examining Grouchy's intellectual collaboration and significance among her contemporaries, Kathleen McCrudden Illert demonstrates how Grouchy developed a unique political philosophy centred upon sympathy.
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Plutarch'S Prism - Classical Reception And Public Humanism In France And England, 1500â€“1800

by Rebecca (University Of Toronto) Kingston

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 Explores how the work of the first-century historian and moralist Plutarch was translated into French and English during the Renaissance and read and invoked in political argument from the early modern period into the 18th century, contributing to a tradition of 'public humanism'
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Politics And Â€˜Politiques' In Sixteenth-Century France - A Conceptual History

by Emma (University Of Cambridge) Claussen

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 During the French Wars of Religion, the nature and identity of politics was the subject of passionate debate and controversy. Exploring early modern French uses of the word 'politique' and the statesman who practised this art, this book investigates questions of language and of power over the course of a tumultuous century.
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Empire Of Eloquence - The Classical Rhetorical Tradition In Colonial Latin America And The Iberian World

by Stuart M. (The Chinese University Of Hong Kong) Mcmanus

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 An exploration of the culture of public speaking in the Iberian world, which places the classical rhetorical tradition within the context of Iberian global expansion in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.
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The English Republican Exiles In Europe During The Restoration

by Gaby (University Of Warwick) Mahlberg

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 Offers a transnational perspective on 17th-century English republicanism through an intimate portrait of the lives of three English republicans - Edmund Ludlow, Henry Neville, and Algernon Sidney - who went into exile in Europe after the Restoration.
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Political Thought In The French Wars Of Religion

by Sophie (University Of Oxford) Nicholls

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 Based on fresh analysis of the political and polemical literature produced by members of the Holy League during the French wars of religion, this study scrutinises their political thought and rethinks their positioning in the wider intellectual context of the religious wars.
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The Political Thought Of The English Free State, 1649â€“1653

by Markku (University Of Helsinki) Peltonen

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 Presents a provocative reassessment of the English Revolution and an original new perspective on English republicanism, drawing on a wide range of sources, including the vast political pamphlet literature of the era. The book also highlights the unprecedented debate over whether the free state was an aristocracy or democracy.
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Human Empire - Mobility And Demographic Thought In The British Atlantic World, 1500â€“1800

by Ted (Concordia University, Montreal) Mccormick

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 Examines the emergence of population as an object of knowledge and governance through attempts to manage poverty, vagrancy, colonization, slavery, religious difference, and empire in the early modern British Atlantic world. This engaging study connects the history of demographic ideas to early modern intellectual, political, and colonial contexts.
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The Case Of Ireland - Commerce, Empire And The European Order, 1750â€“1848

by James (Columbia University, New York) Stafford

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 Demonstrating Ireland's central role in European debates about empire and commerce in the global age of revolutions, this pathbreaking book offers a new perspective on the crisis and transformation of the British Empire at the end of the eighteenth century, and restores Ireland to its rightful place at the centre of European intellectual history.
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Heretical Orthodoxy - Lev Tolstoi And The Russian Orthodox Church

by Pal (University Of Oslo) Kolstã¸

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 Lev Tolstoi, one of the world's most famous writers, wasÂ also a religious thinker and influential critic of the Orthodox Church. This book offers a new account of his relationship with the Church, showing how most of his main ideas drew on his Christian heritage â€" a radical reinterpretation of the faith he encountered in his own life.
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