1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784303203321

Autore

Williams David <1938 May 22->

Titolo

Condorcet and modernity / / by David Williams [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004

ISBN

1-107-16305-6

1-280-70326-1

0-511-23142-3

0-511-23065-6

0-511-22903-8

0-511-33155-X

0-511-49079-8

0-511-22987-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 306 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

320/.01

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 288-300) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

; 1. Profile of a political life -- ; 2. Human nature and human rights -- ; 3. The civil order -- ; 4. Managing enlightenment -- ; 5. Reform and the moral order -- ; 6. New constructions of equality -- ; 7. Justice and the law -- ; 8. Representative government -- ; 9. The economic order -- ; 10. Managing the revolution -- Conclusion : the human odyssey.

Sommario/riassunto

The Marquis de Condorcet was one of the few Enlightenment ideologists to witness the French Revolution and participate as an elected politician at the centre of events during France's transition from monarchy to republic. Condorcet and Modernity explores the interaction between Condorcet's political theory, legislative pragmatism, public policy proposals and the management of change. David Williams examines key topics including rights, the civil order, the Church, the slave trade, women's civil rights, judicial reform, voting and representation, economics, monarchy, power and revolution. He explores the complex links between Condorcet as the visionary ideologist and Condorcet as the pragmatic legislator, and between



Condorcet's concept of modernity - the application of 'social arithmetic' to government policies. Based on an extensive array of both printed and manuscript sources, this major contribution to enlightenment studies is a full treatment of Condorcet's politics.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910151571603321

Titolo

Bestsellers in nineteenth-century America / / edited by Paul C. Gutjahr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Anthem Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-78308-581-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1,379 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series

Disciplina

813.309

Soggetti

American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Anthologies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Bestsellers in Nineteenth Century America seeks to produce for students novels, poems and other printed material that sold extremely well when they first appeared in the United States. Many of the most famous American works of the nineteenth century that we know today - such as Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick" -  were not widely read when they first appeared. This collection seeks to offer its readers a glimpse at the literature that lit up the literary horizon when the works were first published, leading to insights on key cultural aspects of the nineteenth-century United States and its literary culture.