Michael Sonenscher is a fellow and Director of Studies in History at King »s College, University of Cambridge. He is the author of
The Hatters of Eighteenth-Century France,
Work and Wages, and, most recently,
Sans-Culottes.
6 Ebooks par Michael Sonenscher
Michael Sonenscher: Before the Deluge
Ever since the French Revolution, Madame de Pompadour’s comment, ‘Après moi, le déluge’ (after me, the deluge), has looked like a callous if accurate prophecy of the political cataclysms that began i …
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Michael Sonenscher: Sans-Culottes
This is a bold new history of the sans-culottes and the part they played in the French Revolution. It tells for the first time the real story of the name now usually associated with urban violence an …
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Michael Sonenscher: Capitalism
How the history of a word sheds new light on capitalism and modern politics What exactly is capitalism? How has the meaning of capitalism changed over time? And what’s at stake in our understanding o …
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Michael Sonenscher: After Kant
Tracing the origins of modern political thought through three sets of arguments over history, morality, and freedom In this wide-ranging work, Michael Sonenscher traces the origins of modern politica …
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Istvan Hont: Politics in Commercial Society
Scholars normally emphasize the contrast between the two great eighteenth-century thinkers Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith. Rousseau is seen as a critic of modernity, Smith as an apologist. Istv …
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€53.81
Bela Kapossy & Isaac Nakhimovsky: Markets, Morals, Politics
When Istvan Hont died in 2013, the world lost a giant of intellectual history. A leader of the Cambridge School of Political Thought, Hont argued passionately for a global-historical approach to poli …
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