Author: John Millar
Publisher: Natural Law and Enlightenment
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This is one of the major products of the Scottish Enlightenment and a masterpiece of jurisprudence and social theory. Building on David Hume, Adam Smith, and their respective natural histories of man, John Millar developed a progressive account of the nature of authority in society by analysing changes in subsistence, agriculture, arts, and manufacture. 'The Origin of the Distinction of Ranks' is perhaps the most precise and compact development of the abiding themes of the liberal wing of the Scottish Enlightenment. Drawing on Smith's four-stages theory of history and the natural law's traditional division of domestic duties into those toward servants, children, and women, Millar provides a rich historical analysis of the ways in which progressive economic change transforms the nature of authority. In particular, he argues that, with the progress of arts and manufacture, authority tends to become less violent and concentrated, and ranks tend to diversify.
The Origin of the Distinction of Ranks, Or, An Inquiry Into the Circumstances which Give Rise to Influence and Authority, in the Different Members of Society
Author: John Millar
Publisher: Natural Law and Enlightenment
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This is one of the major products of the Scottish Enlightenment and a masterpiece of jurisprudence and social theory. Building on David Hume, Adam Smith, and their respective natural histories of man, John Millar developed a progressive account of the nature of authority in society by analysing changes in subsistence, agriculture, arts, and manufacture. 'The Origin of the Distinction of Ranks' is perhaps the most precise and compact development of the abiding themes of the liberal wing of the Scottish Enlightenment. Drawing on Smith's four-stages theory of history and the natural law's traditional division of domestic duties into those toward servants, children, and women, Millar provides a rich historical analysis of the ways in which progressive economic change transforms the nature of authority. In particular, he argues that, with the progress of arts and manufacture, authority tends to become less violent and concentrated, and ranks tend to diversify.
Publisher: Natural Law and Enlightenment
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This is one of the major products of the Scottish Enlightenment and a masterpiece of jurisprudence and social theory. Building on David Hume, Adam Smith, and their respective natural histories of man, John Millar developed a progressive account of the nature of authority in society by analysing changes in subsistence, agriculture, arts, and manufacture. 'The Origin of the Distinction of Ranks' is perhaps the most precise and compact development of the abiding themes of the liberal wing of the Scottish Enlightenment. Drawing on Smith's four-stages theory of history and the natural law's traditional division of domestic duties into those toward servants, children, and women, Millar provides a rich historical analysis of the ways in which progressive economic change transforms the nature of authority. In particular, he argues that, with the progress of arts and manufacture, authority tends to become less violent and concentrated, and ranks tend to diversify.
The Origin of the Distinction of Ranks
Author: John Millar
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Master and servant
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Master and servant
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
An Inquiry into the Principles of Political Oeconomy Volume 1
Author: Andrew S Skinner
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040244491
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
In his four-volume "Principles", Steuart noted, for example, the economic consequences of the Seven Years' War in Germany, the state of agriculture in Picardy, and the problem of depopulation in the cities of the Austrian Netherlands.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040244491
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
In his four-volume "Principles", Steuart noted, for example, the economic consequences of the Seven Years' War in Germany, the state of agriculture in Picardy, and the problem of depopulation in the cities of the Austrian Netherlands.
The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-century Philosophy
Author: Knud Haakonssen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521867436
Category : Electronic reference sources
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
This two-volume set presents a comprehensive and up-to-date history of eighteenth-century philosophy. The subject is treated systematically by topic, not by individual thinker, school, or movement, thus enabling a much more historically nuanced picture of the period to be painted.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521867436
Category : Electronic reference sources
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
This two-volume set presents a comprehensive and up-to-date history of eighteenth-century philosophy. The subject is treated systematically by topic, not by individual thinker, school, or movement, thus enabling a much more historically nuanced picture of the period to be painted.
Women and States
Author: Ann E. Towns
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521768853
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
This book examines momentous changes over the last century which have advanced women's status around the globe.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521768853
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
This book examines momentous changes over the last century which have advanced women's status around the globe.
MacCormick's Scotland
Author: Neil Walker
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748649301
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
A Gedenkschrift to one of Scotland's most prominent jurists and legal thinkers.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748649301
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
A Gedenkschrift to one of Scotland's most prominent jurists and legal thinkers.
The Scottish Enlightenment and the French Revolution
Author: Anna Plassart
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107091764
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
This book offers the first study of the Scottish Enlightenment reception and interpretation of the French Revolution.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107091764
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
This book offers the first study of the Scottish Enlightenment reception and interpretation of the French Revolution.
The Edinburgh Review
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Bureaucracy, Belonging, and the City in North India
Author: Michael S. Dodson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000051366
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This book is a re-evaluation of modern urbanism and architecture and a history of urbanism, architecture, and local identity in colonial north India at the turn of the twentieth century. Focusing on Banaras and Jaunpur, two of northern India’s most traditional cities, the book examines the workings of colonial bureaucracy in the cities and argues that interactions with the colonial state were an integral aspect of the ways that Indians created a sense of their own personal investment in the city in which they lived. The book explores the every-day and the mundane to better understand the limits of British colonial power, and the role of Indians themselves, in the making of the modern city. Based on highly localized archival source material, the author analyses two key aspects of city-making in this era: the building of new infrastructure, such as water supply and sewerage, and new policies governing historical architectural conservation. The book also incorporates an ethnography of contemporary urban space in these cities to advocate for a more nuanced and responsible approach to writing the history of such cities and to address the myriad problems of present-day north Indian urbanism. Containing examples of bureaucratic procedure and its contradictions and enlivened by a set of personal reflections and narratives of the author's own experiences, this book is a valuable addition to the field of South Asian Studies, Asian History and Asian Culture and Society, Colonial History and Urban History.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000051366
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This book is a re-evaluation of modern urbanism and architecture and a history of urbanism, architecture, and local identity in colonial north India at the turn of the twentieth century. Focusing on Banaras and Jaunpur, two of northern India’s most traditional cities, the book examines the workings of colonial bureaucracy in the cities and argues that interactions with the colonial state were an integral aspect of the ways that Indians created a sense of their own personal investment in the city in which they lived. The book explores the every-day and the mundane to better understand the limits of British colonial power, and the role of Indians themselves, in the making of the modern city. Based on highly localized archival source material, the author analyses two key aspects of city-making in this era: the building of new infrastructure, such as water supply and sewerage, and new policies governing historical architectural conservation. The book also incorporates an ethnography of contemporary urban space in these cities to advocate for a more nuanced and responsible approach to writing the history of such cities and to address the myriad problems of present-day north Indian urbanism. Containing examples of bureaucratic procedure and its contradictions and enlivened by a set of personal reflections and narratives of the author's own experiences, this book is a valuable addition to the field of South Asian Studies, Asian History and Asian Culture and Society, Colonial History and Urban History.
Scholars in Action (2 vols)
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004243917
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 962
Book Description
In Scholars in Action, an international group of 40 authors open up new perspectives on the eighteenth-century culture of knowledge, with a particular focus on scholars and their various practices.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004243917
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 962
Book Description
In Scholars in Action, an international group of 40 authors open up new perspectives on the eighteenth-century culture of knowledge, with a particular focus on scholars and their various practices.