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  • The Closed Commercial State

    Perpetual Peace and Commercial Society from Rousseau to Fichte

    by Isaac Nakhimovsky ...
    This book presents an important new account of Johann Gottlieb Fichte's Closed Commercial State, a major early nineteenth-century development of Rousseau and Kant's political thought. Isaac Nakhimovsky shows how Fichte reformulated Rousseau's constitutional politics and radicalized the economic implications of Kant's social contract theory with his defense of the right to work. Nakhimovsky argues ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • The Holy Alliance

    Liberalism and the Politics of Federation

    by Isaac Nakhimovsky ...
    A major new account of the post-Napoleonic Holy Alliance and the promise it held for liberalsThe Holy Alliance is now most familiar as a label for conspiratorial reaction. In this book, Isaac Nakhimovsky reveals the Enlightenment origins of this post-Napoleonic initiative, explaining why it was embraced at first by many contemporary liberals as the birth of a federal Europe and the dawning of a ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • Commerce and Peace in the Enlightenment

    Edited by Béla Kapossy, Isaac Nakhimovsky, Richard Whatmore ...
    For many Enlightenment thinkers, discerning the relationship between commerce and peace was the central issue of modern politics. The logic of commerce seemed to require European states and empires to learn how to behave in more peaceful, self-limiting ways. However, as the fate of nations came to depend on the flux of markets, it became difficult to see how their race for prosperity could ever be ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Markets, Morals, Politics

    Jealousy of Trade and the History of Political Thought

    by Peter N. Miller, John Robertson, Richard Tuck, Pasquale Pasquino, Keith Tribe, Michael Sonenscher, Gareth Stedman Jones, Raymond Geuss, J. G. A. Pocock, John Dunn ...
    When István Hont died in 2013, the world lost a giant of intellectual history. A leader of the Cambridge School of Political Thought, Hont argued passionately for a global-historical approach to political ideas. To better understand the development of liberalism, he looked not only to the works of great thinkers but also to their reception and use amid revolution and interstate competition. His ... Read more

    $51.69 USD

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  • Democratic Enlightenment

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    by Jonathan Israel ...
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  • Discourses of Tolerance & Intolerance in the European Enlightenment

    Edited by Clorinda Donato, Peter Reill, Hans Erich Bödeker ...
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    The principle of tolerance is one of the most enduring legacies of the Enlightenment. However, scholarly works on the topic to date have been primarily limited to traditional studies based on a historical, 'progressive' view or to the critiques of contemporary writers such as Adorno, Horkheimer, Foucault, and MacIntyre, who believed that the core beliefs of the Enlightenment, including tolerance, ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of European Legal History

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    Series series Oxford Handbooks
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  • The Verdict of Battle

    The Law of Victory and the Making of Modern War

    by James Q. Whitman ...
    Today, war is considered a last resort for resolving disagreements. But a day of staged slaughter on the battlefield was once seen as a legitimate means of settling political disputes. James Whitman argues that pitched battle was essentially a trial with a lawful verdict. And when this contained form of battle ceased to exist, the law of victory gave way to the rule of unbridled force. The Verdict ... Read more

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    Rethinking Political Thought

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  • The 1848 Revolutions and European Political Thought

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  • Fortunes of History

    Historical Inquiry from Herder to Huizinga

    by Professor Donald R. Kelley ...
    In Fortunes of History Donald R. Kelley offers an authoritative examination of historical writing during the long nineteenth century”-the years from the French Revolution to those just after the First World War. He provides a comprehensive analysis of the theories and practices of British, French, German, Italian, and American schools of historical thought, their principal figures, and their ... Read more

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