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New. 0521632064. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** – – *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT--DESCRIPTION: This extended essay by one of the world's leading historians seeks, in its first part, to excavate, and to vindicate, the neo-Roman theory of free citizens and free states as it developed in early-modern Britain. This analysis leads on to a powerful defence of the nature, purposes and goals of intellectual history and the history of ideas. As Quentin Skinner says, ‘the intellectual historian can help us to appreciate how far the values embodied in our present way of life, and our present ways of thinking about those values, reflect a series of choices made at different times between different possible worlds'. This essay thus provides one of the most substantial statements yet made about the importance, relevance and potential excitement of this form of historical enquiry. Liberty before Liberalism is based on Quentin Skinner's Inaugural Lecture as Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge, delivered in November 1997. --Much more than an ‘ordinary' inaugural lecture, a major and extended statement on the nature of intellectual history by one of its most distinguished practitioners--Skinner's profile should guarantee considerable media interest--Real upper-level adoption potential as a concise statement on a major theme. --REVIEW: ‘Liberty Before Liberalism is a meditation both on the methods of intellectual historiography and an exemplar of them. Nobody who knows of Skinner or his work … can doubt his command of his subject, or his acute generosity to other scholars. '-The Times Literary Supplement **--** TABLE OF CONTENTS: Preface; 1. The neo-Roman theory of free states; 2. Free states and individual liberty; 3. Freedom and the historian; Bibliography; Index. ----with a bonus offer--
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Very good. 1998 Hardcover. First edition, reprinted in 1998. Ex-Library, minimal library marks include a small sticker on back cover, no card pocket. Text is clean, Binding is strong. Nice black cloth cover with purple title box, one tiny hole in cloth along spine.
