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Liberty and Property

A Social History of Western Political Thought from the Renaissance to Enlightenment

Ellen Meiksins Wood

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English
Verso
11 January 2012
The formation of the modern state, the rise of capitalism, the Renaissance and Reformation, the scientific revolution and the Age of Enlightenment have all been attributed 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. The concepts of liberty, equality, property, human rights and revolution born in those turbulent centuries continue to shape, and to limit, political discourse today. Assessing the work and background of figures such as Machiavelli, Luther, Calvin, Spinoza, the Levellers, Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau, Ellen 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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Imprint:   Verso
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 236mm,  Width: 157mm,  Spine: 18mm
Weight:   528g
ISBN:   9781844677528
ISBN 10:   1844677524
Pages:   256
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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.

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

.. . 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 ... 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 . .. 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


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