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    Liberty as Independence

    Quentin Skinner

    What does liberty entail? How have concepts of liberty changed over time? And what are the global consequences? This book surveys the history of rival views of liberty from antiquity…

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    Quentin Skinner: History, Politics, Rhetoric

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    This book is the first comprehensive exposition of the work of one of the most important intellectual historians and political theorists writing today. Quentin Skinnera s treatment of political theory…

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    The Foundations of Modern Political Thought: Volume 2, The Age of Reformation

    Quentin Skinner

    A two-volume study of political thought from the late thirteenth to the end of the sixteenth century, the decisive period of transition from medieval to modern political theory. The work…

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    Families and States in Western Europe

    This collection traces the relationship between families and states in the major countries of Western Europe since 1945. Written by an exceptionally distinguished team of scholars, Families and States in…

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    The Foundations of Modern Political Thought: Volume 2, The Age of Reformation

    Quentin Skinner

    A two-volume study of political thought from the late thirteenth to the end of the sixteenth century, the decisive period of transition from medieval to modern political theory. The work…

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    The Return of Grand Theory in the Human Sciences

    The essays discuss major figures such as Gadamer, Derrida, Foucault, Habermas, Althusser and Levi-Strauss.

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    Families and States in Western Europe

    This collection traces the relationship between families and states in the major countries of Western Europe since 1945. Written by an exceptionally distinguished team of scholars, Families and States in…

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    Quentin Skinner: History, Politics, Rhetoric

    Kari Palonen

    This book is the first comprehensive exposition of the work of one of the most important intellectual historians and political theorists writing today. Quentin Skinnera s treatment of political theory…

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    Meaning and Context: Quentin Skinner and His Critics

    Includes five of the most widely discussed articles by Quentin Skinner, which present his approach to the study of political thought and the interpretation of texts. Following these are seven…

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    The Foundations of Modern Political Thought: Volume 1, The Renaissance

    Quentin Skinner (University of Cambridge)

    A two-volume study of political thought from the late thirteenth to the end of the sixteenth century, the decisive period of transition from medieval to modern political theory. The work…

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    The Foundations of Modern Political Thought: Volume 1, The Renaissance

    Quentin Skinner (University of Cambridge)

    A two-volume study of political thought from the late thirteenth to the end of the sixteenth century, the decisive period of transition from medieval to modern political theory. The work…

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    Visions of Politics

    Quentin Skinner (University of Cambridge)

    The first of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner. This collection includes some of his philosophical and methodological statements written over the past four decades, each of which has…

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    Visions of Politics

    Quentin Skinner (University of Cambridge)

    Second of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner.

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    Visions of Politics

    Quentin Skinner (University of Cambridge)

    The first of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner. This collection includes some of his philosophical and methodological statements written over the past four decades, each of which has…

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    Hobbes and Republican Liberty

    Quentin Skinner (University of Cambridge)

    Quentin Skinner is one of the foremost historians in the world, and in Hobbes and Republican Liberty he offers a dazzling comparison of two rival theories about the nature of…

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    Hobbes and Republican Liberty

    Quentin Skinner (University of Cambridge)

    Quentin Skinner is one of the foremost historians in the world, and in Hobbes and Republican Liberty he offers a dazzling comparison of two rival theories about the nature of…

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    Visions of Politics

    Quentin Skinner (University of Cambridge)

    The third of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world’s leading intellectual historians. This collection includes some of his most important work on the political thought…

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    Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes

    Quentin Skinner (University of Cambridge)

    This book presents an interpretation of the political theory of Hobbes.

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    Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes

    Quentin Skinner (University of Cambridge)

    An interpretation of Hobbes, one of the most challenging of political philosophers.

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    Visions of Politics

    Quentin Skinner (University of Cambridge)

    The third of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world’s leading intellectual historians. This collection includes some of his most important work on the political thought…

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    From Humanism to Hobbes: Studies in Rhetoric and Politics

    Quentin Skinner (Queen Mary University of London)

    By focusing on the role of rhetoric in the writings of Machiavelli, Shakespeare and Thomas Hobbes, Quentin Skinner offers new insights into many of their major works. This important volume…

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    Liberty before Liberalism

    Quentin Skinner (Queen Mary University of London)

    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…

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    From Humanism to Hobbes: Studies in Rhetoric and Politics

    Quentin Skinner (Queen Mary University of London)

    By focusing on the role of rhetoric in the writings of Machiavelli, Shakespeare and Thomas Hobbes, Quentin Skinner offers new insights into many of their major works. This important volume…

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    History in the Humanities and Social Sciences

    This inter-disciplinary volume explores the benefits of historical understanding in leading disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, including economics, politics, international relations, sociology, philosophy, law, literature and anthropology, and…

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    History in the Humanities and Social Sciences

    This inter-disciplinary volume explores the benefits of historical understanding in leading disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, including economics, politics, international relations, sociology, philosophy, law, literature and anthropology, and…

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    Sovereignty in Fragments: The Past, Present and Future of a Contested Concept

    What exactly is meant by the acquisition, preservation, infringement or loss of sovereignty? Leading scholars from a variety of disciplinary perspectives provide an overview of the numerous debates centring on…

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    Political Discourse in Early Modern Britain

    This 1993 collection of essays, all by pre-eminent exponents of the history of political thought, explores the political ideologies of early modern Britain. Organised on a broadly chronological basis, the…

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    Popular Sovereignty in Historical Perspective

    This collaborative volume offers the first historical reconstruction of the concept of popular sovereignty. The collection, edited by Richard Bourke and Quentin Skinner, charts the history of the doctrine by…

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    Sovereignty in Fragments: The Past, Present and Future of a Contested Concept

    What exactly is meant by the acquisition, preservation, infringement or loss of sovereignty? Leading scholars from a variety of disciplinary perspectives provide an overview of the numerous debates centring on…

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    Thomas Hobbes: Writings on Common Law and Hereditary Right

    A critical edition of two great works by Thomas Hobbes. The Dialogue of the Common Laws is his classic critique of common law, essential reading for anyone interested in English…

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    Political Discourse in Early Modern Britain

    This collection of essays, all by pre-eminent exponents of the history of political thought, explores the political ideologies of early modern Britain. Organised on a broadly chronological basis, the topics…

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    States and Citizens: History, Theory, Prospects

    A survey of perceptions of the state and its prospects in the contemporary world.

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    States and Citizens: History, Theory, Prospects

    A survey of perceptions of the state and its prospects in the contemporary world.

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    Popular Sovereignty in Historical Perspective

    This collaborative volume offers the first historical reconstruction of the concept of popular sovereignty. The collection, edited by Richard Bourke and Quentin Skinner, charts the history of the doctrine by…

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    Thomas Hobbes: Writings on Common Law and Hereditary Right

    Contains a dialogue between a philosopher and a student, of the common laws of England, edited by Alan Cromartie, supplemented by the important fragment ‘Questions relative to Hereditary Right’, discovered…

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    Freedom and the Construction of Europe 2 Volume Hardback Set

    An internationally distinguished team of contributors explore the richness, diversity and complexity of ideas about freedom across early modern Europe, shedding fresh light on the tension between religious freedom and…

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    Freedom and the Construction of Europe

    An internationally distinguished team of contributors explore the richness, diversity and complexity of ideas about freedom across early modern Europe, shedding fresh light on the tension between religious freedom and…

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    Freedom and the Construction of Europe

    An internationally distinguished team of contributors explore the richness, diversity and complexity of ideas about freedom across early modern Europe, shedding fresh light on the tension between religious freedom and…

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    Republicanism: Volume 2, The Values of Republicanism in Early Modern Europe: A Shared European Heritage

    These 2002 volumes offer the first comprehensive study of republicanism as a shared European heritage. Whilst previous research has mainly focused on Atlantic traditions of republicanism, Professors Skinner and van…

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    Republicanism: Volume 1, Republicanism and Constitutionalism in Early Modern Europe: A Shared European Heritage

    These volumes offer the first comprehensive study of republicanism as a shared European heritage. Whilst previous research has mainly focused on Atlantic traditions of republicanism, Professors Skinner and van Gelderen…

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    Republicanism: Volume 1, Republicanism and Constitutionalism in Early Modern Europe: A Shared European Heritage

    The first comprehensive study of republicanism as a shared European heritage.

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    Republicanism: Volume 2, The Values of Republicanism in Early Modern Europe: A Shared European Heritage

    The first comprehensive study of republicanism as a shared European heritage.

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    Freedom and the Construction of Europe

    An internationally distinguished team of contributors explore the richness, diversity and complexity of ideas about freedom across early modern Europe, shedding fresh light on the tension between religious freedom and…

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    An internationally distinguished team of contributors explore the richness, diversity and complexity of ideas about freedom across early modern Europe, shedding fresh light on the tension between religious freedom and…

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    Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction

    Quentin Skinner (Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities, Queen Mary University of London)

    Quentin Skinner introduces Niccolo Machiavelli, Florentine diplomat, politician, and the writer known for that most infamous Early Modern work, The Prince. He explores Machiavelli’s theory of princely virtu, tracing its…

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    Begriffswandel ALS Sprachhandlung: Der Beitrag Quentin Skinners Zur Methodologie Und Funktionsbestimmung Der Paedagogischen Geschichtsschreibung

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    Die Arbeit unternimmt die Rekonstruktion der Methodologie Quentin Skinners. Mit ihr wird der Referenzrahmen padagogischer Geschichtsschreibung analysiert. Dies geschieht im Hinblick auf das Unterstutzungs-, Erganzungs-, Erweiterungs- und Kritikpotential, welches die…

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    Machiavelli: The Prince

    Niccolo Machiavelli

    This new edition of the acclaimed translation of Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince - revised for the first time after thirty years - includes an extended and rewritten introduction by Quentin…

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