Adam Ferguson in the Scottish enlightenment : the Roman past and Europe's future / Iain McDaniel.

  • McDaniel, Iain, 1975-
Date:
2013
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Publication/Creation

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2013.

Physical description

x, 276 pages ; 25 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-270) and index.

Contents

Montesquieu and the unfree republic -- Military government and empire in the Scottish enlightenment -- Ferguson and the moral foundations of civil society -- Trajectories of the modern commercial state -- Britain's future in a Roman mirror -- Civil-military union and the modern state -- Revolution and modern republicanism.

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    History of Medicine
    JQC.46.AA7-8
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ISBN

  • 9780674072961
  • 0674072960