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Crisis of Reason
European Thought, 1848–1914
Av J. W. Burrow
Häftad, 2002
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544 kr
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This elegantly written book explores the history of ideas in Europe from the revolutions of 1848 to the beginning of the First World War. Broader than a straight survey, deeper and richer than a textbook, this work seeks to place the reader in the position of an informed eavesdropper on the …
Whigs and Liberals
Continuity and Change in English Political Thought (The Carlyle Lectures 1985)
Av J. W. Burrow
Inbunden, 1988
2753 kr
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This study of English political thought in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is organized around the concept of a Whig tradition. Professor Burrow argues that the study of nineteenth-century liberal thought has taken insufficient account of its eighteenth-century antecedents. The work of …
Evolution and Society
Av J. W. Burrow
Häftad, 1970
699 kr
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In this 1966 text Dr Burrow investigates the reasons why Victorian pioneers of social science were habitually approaching the study of other societies with largely positivistic and evolutionary methodologies. As a result of this, anthropology appeared to be seeking affirmation of assumed laws and …
A Liberal Descent
Victorian historians and the English past
Av J. W. Burrow
Häftad, 1983
754 kr
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The idea of a 'Whig interpretation' of English history incorporates the two fundamental notions of progress and continuity. The former made it possible to read English history as a 'success story', the latter endorsed a pragmatic, gradualist political style as the foundation of English freedom. Dr …
