Three Beginnings: Revolution, Rights, and the Liberal State : Comparative Perspectives on the English, American, and French Revolutions - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0820423432 ISBN 13 : 9780820423432

Editeur : Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 1995

Synopsis

This collection of essays offers a comparative examination of the complex issues of sovereignty, legitimacy, and rights in the English, American, and French revolutions. A symposium of historians, political philosophers, legal, and literary scholars discuss the construction of what we now identify as the liberal, democratic, and constitutional state and debate the meaning and merits of liberalism for our own time.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

The Editors: Stephen F. Englehart and John Allphin Moore, Jr., are Professors of History at California State Polytechnic University - Pomona.
Professor Englehart, a European historian, serves as chair of the Department of History and Professor Moore, an American historian, is Director of the Douglass Adair Symposia.
The Contributors: Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr., Gerard Conac, Terence E. Marshall, Carol Blum, Lois G. Schwoerer, Charles R. Kesler, John Allphin Moore, Richard Ashcraft, Tamas Ungvari, Lee C. McDonald, John E. Murphy

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0820423432
• ISBN 13: 9780820423432
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 219
• Éditeur: Englehart Stephen F, Moore John Allphin Jr
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