Virtue, Commerce, and History: Essays on Political Thought and History, Chiefly in the Eighteenth CenturyThis 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. |
Contents
Virtues rights and manners A model for historians of political thought | 37 |
Authority and property The question of liberal origins | 51 |
1776 The revolution against Parliament | 73 |
Modes of political and historical time in early eighteenthcentury England | 91 |
The mobility of property and the rise of eighteenthcentury sociology | 103 |
Hume and the American Revolution The dying thoughts of a North Briton | 125 |
Gibbons Decline and Fall and the world view of the Late Enlightenment | 143 |
Josiah Tucker on Burke Locke and Price A study in the varieties of eighteenth century conservatism | 157 |
The political economy of Burkes analysis of the French Revolution | 193 |
The varieties of Whiggism from Exclusion to Reform A history of ideology and discourse | 215 |
II From the Financial Revolution to the Scottish Enlightenment | 230 |
III From the Seven Years War to the Constitution of the United States | 253 |
IV From the response to the American Revolution to the reaction to the French Revolution | 274 |
V From Cobbetts History of the Reformation to Macaulays History of England | 295 |
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