Author: David Hume
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781482622744
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 474
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A century before the American Revolution, the first great clash between ancient monarchy and modern ideas of liberty took place on the battlefields of England. This epic story of England in the first half of the seventeenth century, a half century of unrest that culminated in the English Civil War, begins with the accession of the first Stuart king, James I, to the throne of England, continues with the infamous "gunpowder treason" of Guy Fawkes, and proceeds through every crucial event leading to the fall of a 600-year-old monarchy. With an eye for both the smallest anecdote and the grandest themes, the great philosopher and historian David Hume narrates a story of politics and people that, like other classic histories such as Thucydides' Peloponnesian War, reveals much about not just its own time but all times. Originally published in 1754, it was the standard account for a century and is one of the greatest histories ever written. In recent times, however, the book has been too little read, in part because Hume's language has grown increasingly archaic. This new edition is a gently updated "modern English" version. It contains the full narrative history; it is not censored, bowdlerized, or politically corrected. Hume has his full say and now the modern reader can readily hear it. The editor, a professional copyeditor, originally took on the project of updating Hume's language so his son could read this great classic with pleasure and full understanding as part of his high school homeschool course on British history. Every sentence of the volume was rigorously inspected; only those changes that improved readability and comprehension were implemented, with great care taken to preserve the felicity, nuance, and power of Hume's prose. Self-publishing the result became another homeschool project; the son designed the covers and father and son formatted the text together. This edition includes the following major categories of changes: * Obsolete names of persons are rendered in modern style (e.g., Louis XIII for "Lewis"; Colonel John Hurry for "Urrey"; John Cosin, dean of Peterborough, for "Cosins" and "Cozens"; Hugh MacMahon for "Mahone"; Sir Richard Grenville for "Granvile"). * Obsolete names of places are rendered in modern style (e.g., Powderham Castle for "Poudram"; Santander, Spain for "St. Andero"; Drogheda, Ireland for "Tredah"; Moray County, Scotland for "Murray"; Perth, Scotland for "St. Johnstone's"). * Archaic words are replaced with modern words of the same meaning (e.g., dared for "durst"; half for "moiety"; in no way for "nowise"; boast for "vaunt" (noun); playgoer for "play-haunter") * Archaic senses of still-used words are replaced with modern words to avoid misunderstanding of Hume's intended meaning when a word still in use has changed in meaning (e.g., reveal, uncover, show, expose, display, evidence, disclose, perceive, betray, or apparent is substituted for "discover" as the context requires; ardent, zealous, warm, or fervent is substituted for "earnest" as the context requires; pledge, promise, agreement, enterprise, enlistment, obligation, contract, commitment, or undertaking is substituted for "engagement" as the context requires; aware, cognizant, mindful, palpable, perceptible, perceived, keenly felt, alert, noticeable, or conspicuous is substituted for "sensible" as the context requires). * Archaic idioms are replaced with modern phrases of the same meaning (e.g., "he resolved no longer to abide by any limits on his conduct with respect to the court" is substituted for "he resolved no longer to keep any measures with the court"). * Archaic spellings of common words are rendered in modern form (e.g., malcontents for "malecontents"; encounter for "rencounter"). * British spellings are rendered in American form. * Capitalizations of offices, titles of persons, and proper nouns follow modern American style. * Archaic syntax and punctuation are rendered in modern style.
Author: Andrew Sabl
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691168172
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Hume's Politics provides a comprehensive examination of David Hume's political theory, and is the first book to focus on Hume's monumental History of England as the key to his distinctly political ideas. Andrew Sabl argues that conventions of authority are the main building blocks of Humean politics, and explores how the History addresses political change and disequilibrium through a dynamic treatment of coordination problems. Dynamic coordination, as employed in Hume's work, explains how conventions of political authority arise, change, adapt to new social and economic conditions, improve or decay, and die. Sabl shows how Humean constitutional conservatism need not hinder--and may in fact facilitate--change and improvement in economic, social, and cultural life. He also identifies how Humean liberalism can offer a systematic alternative to neo-Kantian approaches to politics and liberal theory. At once scholarly and accessibly written, Hume's Politics builds bridges between political theory and political science. It treats issues of concern to both fields, including the prehistory of political coordination, the obstacles that must be overcome in order for citizens to see themselves as sharing common political interests, the close and counterintuitive relationship between governmental authority and civic allegiance, the strategic ethics of political crisis and constitutional change, and the ways in which the biases and injustices endemic to executive power can be corrected by legislative contestation and debate.
Author: Anthony Leon Brundage
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317317106
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
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Two eminent scholars of historiography examine the concept of national identity through the key multi-volume histories of the last two hundred years. Starting with Hume’s History of England (1754–62), they explore the work of British historians whose work had a popular readership and an influence on succeeding generations of British children.
Author: Mark G. Spencer
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271068418
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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This volume provides a new and nuanced appreciation of David Hume as a historian. Gone for good are the days when one can offhandedly assert, as R. G. Collingwood once did, that Hume “deserted philosophical studies in favour of historical” ones. History and philosophy are commensurate in Hume’s thought and works from the beginning to the end. Only by recognizing this can we begin to make sense of Hume’s canon as a whole and see clearly his many contributions to fields we now recognize as the distinct disciplines of history, philosophy, political science, economics, literature, religious studies, and much else besides. Casting their individual beams of light on various nooks and crannies of Hume’s historical thought and writing, the book’s contributors illuminate the whole in a way that would not be possible from the perspective of a single-authored study. Aside from the editor, the contributors are David Allan, M. A. Box, Timothy M. Costelloe, Roger L. Emerson, Jennifer Herdt, Philip Hicks, Douglas Long, Claudia M. Schmidt, Michael Silverthorne, Jeffrey M. Suderman, Mark R. M. Towsey, and F. L. van Holthoon.
Author: David Hume
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 2516
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This eBook edition of "The History of England" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The History of England is David Hume's great work on the history of England, which he wrote in while he was librarian to the Faculty of Advocates in Edinburgh. It was published in six volumes. The History spanned "from the invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688" and went through over 100 editions. Contents: The Britons. The Romans. The Britons. The Saxons. The Heptarchy The Kingdom of Kent The Kingdom of Northumberland The Kingdom of East Anglia The Kingdom of Mercia The Kingdom of Essex. The Kingdom of Sussex. The Kingdom of Wessex. Egbert. Ethelwolf. Ethelbald and Ethelbert. Ethered Alfred. Edward the Elder. Athelstan. Edmund. Edred Edwy Edgar Edward the Martyr Ethelred Edmond Ironside Canute Harold Harefoot Hardicanute Edward the Confessor Harold William the Conqueror. Henry III. Edward I. Edward II. Edward III. Richard II. Henry IV Henry V. Henry VI. Edward IV. Edward V. And Richard III. Richard III. William Rufus. Henry I. Stephen. Henry II. Richard I. John. The Feudal and Anglo-Norman Government and Manners Henry Vii. Henry Viii. Edward Vi. Mary. Elizabeth. James I. Charles I. The Commonwealth Charles II. James II.
Author: David Hume
Publisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781346448213
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 530
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Paul Russell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190493925
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 833
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The Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711-1776) is widely regarded as the greatest and most significant English-speaking philosopher and often seen as having had the most influence on the way philosophy is practiced today in the West. His reputation is based not only on the quality of his philosophical thought but also on the breadth and scope of his writings, which ranged over metaphysics, epistemology, morals, politics, religion, and aesthetics. The Handbook's 38 newly commissioned chapters are divided into six parts: Central Themes; Metaphysics and Epistemology; Passion, Morality and Politics; Aesthetics, History, and Economics; Religion; Hume and the Enlightenment; and After Hume. The volume also features an introduction from editor Paul Russell and a chapter on Hume's biography.
Author: Victor G. Wexler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Author: David Hume
Publisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781010921844
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Nicholas T. Phillipson
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300184867
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 195
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A giant of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, David Hume was one of the most important philosophers ever to write in English. He was also a brilliant historian. In this book--a new and revised edition of his 1989 classic--Nicholas Phillipson shows how Hume freed history from religion and politics. As a philosopher, Hume sought a way of seeing the world and pursuing happiness independently of a belief in God. His groundbreaking approach applied the same outlook to Britain's history, showing how the past was shaped solely through human choices and actions. In this analysis of Hume's life and works, from his university days in Edinburgh to the rapturous reception of his "History of England," Nicholas Phillipson reveals the gradual process by which one of the greatest Western philosophers turned himself into one of the greatest historians of Britain. In doing so, he shows us how revolutionary Hume was, and why his ideas still matter today.
