Liberty Before Liberalism

Klappentext Provides one of the most substantial statements about the importance, relevance, and potential excitement of this form of historical enquiry. Zusammenfassung This extended essay by one of the world's leading historians seeks! in its first part! to excavate and to vindicate! the neo-Roman theory of free citizens and free states as it developed in early modern Britain. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. The neo-Roman theory of free states; 2. Free states and individual liberty; 3. Freedom and the historian; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Quentin Skinner, Quentin (Queen Mary University of London) Skinner, Skinner Quentin
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.03.2012
• EAN: 9781107689534
• ISBN: 978-1-107-68953-4
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 215 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Canto Classics; Print On Demand; Canto Classics
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Human rights, civil rights, Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies, Centrist democratic ideologies