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Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes
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Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes

Quentin Skinner presents a fundamental reappraisal of the political theory of Hobbes. Using, for the first time, the full range of manuscript as well as printed sources, it documents an entirely new view of Hobbes's intellectual development, and re-examines the shift from a humanist to a scientific culture in European moral and political thought.
 
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Hamlet's Moment: Drama and Political Knowledge in Early Modern England
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Hamlet's Moment: Drama and Political Knowledge in Early Modern England

Hamlet's Moment identifies a turning point in the history of English drama and early modern political culture: the moment when the business of politics became a matter of dramatic representation. Drama turned from open, military conflict to diplomacy and court policy, from the public contestation of power to the technologies of government. Tragedies of state turned into tragedies of state servants, inviting the public to consider politics as a profession–to imagine what it meant to have a political career.
 
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British Aestheticism and the Urban Working Classes, 1870-1900: Beauty for the People
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British Aestheticism and the Urban Working Classes, 1870-1900: Beauty for the People

This cultural study reveals the interdependence between British Aestheticism and late-Victorian social-reform movements. Following their mentor John Ruskin who believed in art's power to civilize the poor, cultural philanthropists promulgated a Religion of Beauty as they advocated practical schemes for tenement reform, university-settlement education, Sunday museum opening, and High Anglican revival. Although subject to novelist's ambivalent, even satirical, representations, missionary aesthetes nevertheless constituted an influential social network, imbuing fin-de-siecle artistic communities with political purpose and political lobbies with aesthetic sensibility.
 
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Tags: British, Aestheticism, political, cultural, Beauty
Dictionary of the Politics of the People's Republic of China
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Dictionary of the Politics of the People's Republic of China

As China's political and economic development comes under closer scrutiny, this Dictionary will prove invaluable to anyone with an interest in contemporary China. As well as proving valuable to students and academics of political science, economics, history and Asian studies, it will be of use to government officials, business people and media professionals with current or future connections in the region.
 
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Autobiography (Collected works of John Stuart Mill)
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Autobiography (Collected works of John Stuart Mill)

The Collected Works consists of 33 volumes which contain the writings of one of the leading classical liberals of the 19th century. Mill wrote works of political economy, philosophy, history, political theory, and corresponded with many of the leading figures of his day. The collection also includes the speeches he gave as a member of parliament and many volumes of his newspaper articles.
 
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