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Liberty and Property: A Social History of Western Political Thought from Renaissance to Enlightenment

Liberty and Property: A Social History of Western Political Thought from Renaissance to Enlightenment

by EllenMeiksinsWood (Author)

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    Paperback 2012

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Synopsis

The formation of the modern state, the rise of capitalism, the Renaissance and Reformation, the scientific revolution and the Age of Enlightenment - all these have been credited to the early modern period. Nearly everything about its history remains controversial, but one thing is certain: it left a rich and provocative legacy of political ideas unmatched in Western history. Ideas of liberty, equality, property, human rights and revolution born into those turbulent centuries continue to shape, and to limit, political discourse today. From Machiavelli, Luther and Calvin to Spinoza, the Levellers, Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau, Meiksins Wood vividly explores the ideas of the canonical thinkers, not as philosophical abstractions but as passionately engaged responses to the social conflicts of their day.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 256
 Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 01 Feb 2012
ISBN 10: 1844677524
ISBN 13: 9781844677528

Media Reviews
.. . This book is clearly written, incisively argued, and immensely informative. --CHOICE

a notable book, wide-ranging and perceptive ... [Wood] addresses the heartland of the historiography of political thought from Machiavelli to Rousseau, the territory of its most successful recent practitioners. --Jonathan Clark, TLS

Author Bio
ELLEN MEIKSINS WOOD is the author of a number of books, including The Pristine Culture of Capitalism, Peasant-Citizen and Slave, The Origin of Capitalism, Empire of Capital and the first of her multi-volume social history of political thought, Citizens to Lords: A Social History of Western Political Thought from Antiquity to the Middle Ages.