In the years of revolution between 1776 and 1848, stress and transition produced some fundamental reflections on politics and society. This introductory text considers how a cluster of key European thinkers, including Burke, Hegel, Tocqueville and Marx, viewed theglobal political upheavalsand social changes of their times."
In the years of revolution between 1776 and 1848, stress and transition produced some fundamental reflections on politics and society. This introducto...
The European seventeenth century saw the seeming resolution of two great conflicts. Through the nightmares of the Thirty Years War and the British civil wars, the murderous religious hatreds that had dominated the previous period finally burnt themselves out. Extreme Protestants were defeated, expelled, contained or subordinated, and Catholicism successfully re-established itself through much of Europe as the dominant religion. Dr. Spellman studies all the great political theorists of the century (dominated inevitably by Hobbes). This book will be invaluable for anyone studying...
The European seventeenth century saw the seeming resolution of two great conflicts. Through the nightmares of the Thirty Years War and the British ...
