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This book investigates Thomas Paine's social and political thought in both its British and American moments. It examines the ways in which Paine's ideas were understood. The book restores him to the position his contemporaries accorded him, that of an important writer on politics and society.

This groundbreaking new work explores modern and contemporary political thought since 1750, looking at the thinkers, concepts, debates, issues, and national traditions that have shaped political thought from the Enlightenment to post-modernism and post-structuralism. The Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought is two-volume A to Z reference that provides historical context to the philosophical issues and debates that have shaped attitudes tow...

The first monograph devoted to the concept of dystopia: redefining the central concepts and chronology of the genre, and offering a theoretical overview and prehistory of the concept, an account of twentieth-century totalitarian regimes as dystopias, and a brief history of the literary dystopia from the early nineteenth century to the present.

Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Thought provides essential information on, and a critical interpretation of, nineteenth-century thought and nineteenth-century thinkers. The project takes as its temporal boundary the period 1789 to 1914. Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Thought primarily covers social and political thinking, but key entries also survey science, religion, law, art, concepts of modernity, the body and health, and so on, and ...

A rich and diverse collection of late seventeenth-century British Utopian texts made up of rarer pieces -- many of which have never before been published -- from this period.

Imperial Sceptics provides a highly original analysis of the emergence of opposition to the British Empire. Tracing critical strands of anti-imperial thought from 1850 to the First World War, Gregory Claeys proposes a new chronology for the contours of resistance to imperial expansion, shedding fresh light on nineteenth-century political thought.

This Cambridge History provides the first comprehensive survey of political thought in Europe, America and Asia in the nineteenth century.

This book gives prominence for the first time to Mill's abiding concern with Malthusianism and its impact on his arguments respecting liberty.

A major collection of tracts from the British utopian tradition.

A major collection of tracts from the British utopian tradition.

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This Cambridge History provides the first comprehensive survey of political thought in Europe, America and Asia in the nineteenth century.

Das 19. Jahrhundert war ein Jahrhundert der grossen sozialen und politischen Bewegungen. Unter dem Gesichtspunkt des Radikalismus dieser Bewegungen untersuchen die Aufsätze dieses Bandes zum einen die historischen Grundlagen: Wieso waren Reformen nötig, wer waren ihre Träger, was meint «radikal»? Zum anderen stellen sie literarische Texte vor, die diese gesellschaftlichen Fragen aufgreifen und «radikal», sei es in politischer, sei es in ästhet...

The Utopia Reader compiles primary texts from a variety of authors and movements in the history of theorizing utopias.Utopianism is defined as the various ways of imagining, creating, or analyzing the ways and means of creating an ideal or alternative society. Prominent writers and scholars across history have long explored how or why to envision different ways of life. The volume includes texts from classical Greek literature, the Old Testame...

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From the publication of More's "Utopia" in 1516 to present day literary evocations of terrifying futures, this traces the historical development and evolution of this provocative genre.

Gregory Claeys proposes a new chronology for the emergence of opposition to the British Empire from 1850 to 1920.

Using a combination of historical and thematic approaches, this volume engages with the fascinating and complex genre of utopian literature.

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