The Languages of Political Theory in Early-Modern Europe

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Acknowledgements
Introduction Anthony Pagden
1. The concept of a language and the métier d'historien: some considerations on practice J. G. A. Pocock
Part I:
2. The history of the word politicus in early-modern Europe Nicolai Rubinstein
3. Civil science in the Renaissance: the problem of interpretation Donald Kelley
4. Dispossessing the barbarian: the language of Spanish Thomism and the debate over the property rights of the American Indians Anthony Pagden
5. The 'modern' theory of natural law Richard Tuck
Part II:
6. Sir Thomas More's Utopia and the language of Renaissance humanism Quentin Skinner
7. The concept of ordre and the language of classical republicanism in Jean-Jacques Rousseau Maurizio Viroli
8. The language of seventeenth-century republicanism in the United Provinces: Dutch or European? Eco Haitma Mulier
9. The civil religion of James Harrington Mark Goldie
Part III:
10. Liberty, luxury and the pursuit of happiness M. M. Goldsmith
11. The language of sociability and commerce: Samuel Pufendorf and the theoretical foundations of the 'Four-Stages Theory' Istvan Hont
12. 'Da metafisico a mercatante': Antonio Genovesi and the development of a new language of commerce in eighteenth-century Naples Richard Bellamy
Part IV:
13. The criticism of rhetorical historiography and the ideal of scientific method: history, nature and science in the political language of Thomas Hobbes Gigliola Rossini
14. Saint-Simon and the passage from political to social science Robert Wokler
15. Alexander Hamilton and the language of political science Judith N. Shklar
Index.

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