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UNINA9910457560703321 |
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Williams David <1938 May 22-> |
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Condorcet and modernity / / by David Williams [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004 |
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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 |
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1 online resource (xi, 306 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Monografia |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 288-300) and indexes. |
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; 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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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UNISA996393675903316 |
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Wharton Thomas Wharton, Marquess of, <1648?-1715.> |
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Thomas Lord Wharton, Baron of Wharton in the county of Westmorland, warden, chief-justice, and justice in eyre of all his Majesty's forests, chases, parks, and warrens, of the south side of Trent [[electronic resource] ] : To the wardens, lieutenants, verderers, regarders, master-foresters, rangers, keepers, under-keepers, and to all and singular other the ministers and officers of his Majesty's forests, chases, parks, and warrens aforesaid, and every of them; and to all others whom these presents may concern: sendeth greeting, &c |
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Lumber - Law and legislation - England |
Game laws - England |
BroadsidesEngland |
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Prohibits hunting and the cutting down of trees in the King's forests. |
At end of text: "Given under my hand, and the seal of my office, this 19th day of August [in the] ninth year of the reign of our sovereign Lord William the third, by the grace of God, of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, [De]fender of the Faith, &c. Annoq; Dom. 1697." |
Reproduction of original in the British Library. |
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