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Michael Sonenscher
How the history of a word sheds new light on capitalism and modern politics.
What exactly is capitalism? How has the meaning of capitalism changed over time? And what's at…
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Michael Sonenscher (Dr)
This book was first published in 1989. In this extensive analysis of the urban trades of eighteenth-century France, the foundations are laid for comparative studies of the workshop economy in…
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This is a book about why Jean-Jacques Rousseau can be seen as one of the first theorists of the concept of civil society and a key source of the idea…
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Examines contemporary debates about Ciceronian, Cynic, and Cartesian moral philosophy, as well as subjects ranging from music and the origins of government to property and the nature of the human…
Madame de Pompadour’s comment, ‘Apres moi, le deluge’ (after me, the deluge), has looked like a callous if accurate prophecy of the political cataclysms in 1789. But decades before the…
This short book is an attempt to restore clarity to the concept capitalism, originally a 19th century French word which has been misused and misunderstood, often to the detriment of…
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"A reflection on the legacy of money, law, and history in modern political thought"--
Emmanuel Sieyes
The abbe Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes (1748-1836) distinguished himself as the chief theoretician of the French Revolution–and as a revolutionary constitutional and social theorist in his own right–through his rigorously analytical…
The internal organisation of production before the development of the factory system is still shrouded in historical mystery. How goods were made before machines, how work was organised before the…
Istvan Hont
Scholars normally emphasize the contrast between the two great eighteenth-century thinkers Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith. Rousseau is seen as a critic of modernity; Smith as an apologist. However, Istvan…
When Istvan Hont died in 2013 the world lost a giant of intellectual history. Markets, Morals, Politics brings together a celebrated cast of Hont’s contemporaries to explore his influence, ideas…
