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  • The Recognition of Sovereignty

    Politics of Empire in Early Anglo-Scottish Literature

    par Lee Manion ...
    In this timely and impactful contribution to debates over the relationship between politics and storytelling, Lee Manion uncovers the centrality of narrative to the European concept of sovereignty. In Scottish and English texts traversing the political, the legal, the historiographical, and the literary, and from the medieval through to the early modern period, he examines the tumultuous ... En savoir plus

    $133.59 CAD

  • Narrating the Crusades

    Loss and Recovery in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature

    par Lee Manion ...
    Collections Livre 90 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
    In Narrating the Crusades, Lee Manion examines crusading's narrative-generating power as it is reflected in English literature from c.1300 to 1604. By synthesizing key features of crusade discourse into one paradigm, this book identifies and analyzes the kinds of stories crusading produced in England, uncovering new evidence for literary and historical research as well as genre studies. Surveying ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

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  • Locke

    A Very Short Introduction

    par John Dunn ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    John Locke (1632-1704) one of the greatest English philosophers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, argued in his masterpiece, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, that our knowledge is founded in experience and reaches us principally through our senses; but its message has been curiously misunderstood. In this book John Dunn shows how Locke arrived at his theory of knowledge ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • Enlightenment

    Britain and the Creation of the Modern World

    par Roy Porter ...
    For generations the traditional focus for those wishing to understand the roots of the modern world has been France on the eve of the Revolution. Porter certainly acknowledges France's importance, but here makes an overwhelming case for consideringBritain the true home of modernity - a country driven by an exuberance, diversity and power of invention comparable only to twentieth-century America. ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Adam Smith

    An Enlightened Life

    par Nicholas Phillipson ...
    Adam Smith is celebrated all over the world as the author of The Wealth of Nations and the founder of modern economics. A few of his ideas - that of the 'Invisible Hand' of the market and that 'It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest' - have become icons of the modern world. Yet Smith saw himself ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • David Hume

    The Philosopher as Historian

    par Nicholas Phillipson ...
    'A skilful and lucid study ... Hume's History has been unjustly neglected at the expense of his philosophy. Phillipson's book should help redress the balance' London Review of Books'For pray, what is the End of Man? Is he created for Happiness or for Virtue? For this Life or for the next? For himself or for his Maker?'A giant of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, David Hume was one of the most ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Levellers

    Radical political thought in the English Revolution

    par Rachel Foxley ...
    Collections series Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain
    The Leveller movement of the 1640s campaigned for religious toleration and a radical remaking of politics in post-civil war England. This book, the first full-length study of the Levellers for fifty years, offers a fresh analysis of the originality and character of Leveller thought. Challenging received ideas about the Levellers as social contract theorists and Leveller thought as a mere ... En savoir plus

    $34.99 CAD

  • A Social History of England, 1500–1750

    Modifié par Keith Wrightson ...
    Collections series A Social History of England
    The rise of social history has had a transforming influence on the history of early modern England. It has broadened the historical agenda to include many previously little-studied, or wholly neglected, dimensions of the English past. It has also provided a fuller context for understanding more established themes in the political, religious, economic and intellectual histories of the period. This ... En savoir plus

    $36.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Culture

    Modifié par Andrew Galloway ...
    Collections series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    The cultural life of England over the long period from the Norman Conquest to the Reformation was rich and varied, in ways that scholars are only now beginning to understand in detail. This Companion introduces a wide range of materials that constitute the culture, or cultures, of medieval England, across fields including political and legal history, archaeology, social history, art history, ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $37.99 CAD Maintenant $31.99 CAD

  • New Perspectives on the Politics and Culture of Early Modern Scotland

    Modifié par John Dwyer, Roger Mason ...
    This collection of essays on early modern Scotland offers 'new perspectives' on aspects of Scottish history from 1560 to 1800. Some essays challenge accepted interpretations; others explore subjects and sources that have previously not attracted the attention of historians; all represent new research on Scottish history from the Reformation to the Enlightenment. They indicate renewed interest in ... En savoir plus

    $27.19 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Corporate Commonwealth

    Pluralism and Political Fictions in England, 1516–1651

    par Henry S. Turner ...
    The history of the rise and transformation of corporations—and their political power—in Renaissance England.Winner of the Elizabeth Dietz Memorial Prize for the Best Book in Renaissance StudiesThe Corporate Commonwealth traces the evolution of corporations during the English Renaissance and explores the many types of corporations that once flourished. Along the way, the book offers important ... En savoir plus

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Literature and the English Revolution

    Modifié par Laura Lunger Knoppers ...
    Collections series Oxford Handbooks
    This Handbook offers a comprehensive introduction and thirty-seven new essays by an international team of literary critics and historians on the writings generated by the tumultuous events of mid-seventeenth-century England. Unprecedented events-civil war, regicide, the abolition of monarchy, proscription of episcopacy, constitutional experiment, and finally the return of monarchy-led to an ... En savoir plus

    $159.99 CAD