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The Ideological Origins of the British Empire
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 24.00David Armitage makes an outstanding contribution with this history of British conceptions of empire from the 1540s to the 1740s. He sheds new light on major British political thinkers, and the relationship between Protestantism and empire, theories of property, liberty and political economy, and the emergence of the British identity. Winner of the... more...
The Origins of American Social Science
Cambridge University Press 1990; US$ 46.00Examines how American social science modelled itself on natural science and liberal politics. more...
The Duel in Early Modern England
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 44.00Arguments about the duel in early modern England were widespread. To understand duelling is to understand some crucial issues in the cultural and ideological history of Stuart England, and this major new study will engage the attention of a very wide audience of historians, cultural and literary scholars. more...
Humanism and America
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 44.00Humanism and America is the first major study of the impact of Renaissance humanism upon the English colonisation of America. Andrew Fitzmaurice conducts his analysis through an interdisciplinary examination of a broad spectrum of writings, ranging from the works of Thomas More to those of the Virginia Company. more...
Self-Interest before Adam Smith
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 48.00A study of the history of the concept of self-interest before Adam Smith, in order to understand what it meant when Adam Smith used it as an axiom in The Wealth of Nations. The author shows that Smith's theory refutes the 'selfish hypothesis' yet integrates it at the same time. more...
The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 65.00This book provides a way into understanding a momentous development in human intellectual history: the phenomenon of deductive argument in classical Greek mathematics. The argument rests upon a close description of the practices of Greek mathematics, principally the use of lettered diagrams and the regulated, formulaic use of language. more...
Rival Enlightenments
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 48.00Rival Enlightenments is a major reinterpretation of early modern German intellectual history. Ian Hunter treats the civil philosophy of Pufendorf and Thomasius and the metaphysical philosophy of Leibniz and Kant as rival intellectual cultures or paideiai. Combining careful scholarship with vivid polemic, Hunter presents insights for philosophers and... more...
Political Culture in the Reign of Elizabeth I
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 48.00In this major contribution to Ideas in Context Anne McLaren looks at how Elizabeth I managed to be queen, in the face of considerable male opposition. She examines the political context of Elizabeth's reign and demonstrates the continuities between it and the outbreak of the English civil war. more...
Measurement in Psychology
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 46.00This book traces how such a seemingly immutable idea as measurement proved so malleable when it collided with the subject matter of psychology. It locates the philosophical and social influences reshaping the concept and identifies a fundamental problem: are psychological attributes really quantitative? more...
Elizabethan Rhetoric
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 55.00In this deeply learned contribution to the cultural and educational history of Elizabethan England, Peter Mack examines the impact of humanist training in the use of language on English prose writing. He shows how this training was deployed in both literary genres and in more practical legal and political settings. more...









