Collected Works of John Stuart Mill - Volume VI: Essays on England, Ireland, and the Empire

Mill, John Stuart

ISBN 10: 0802055729 / ISBN 13: 9780802055729

Published by University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1982

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Hardcover in dust jacket, very good condition. Jacket has some minor surface marks with a slight nick to the bottom front corner and a nick to the spine head. Jacket spine is a little tanned and page block has a couple of minor marks. Creases to board spine and spine ends and corners of boards are bumped. Internally excellent throughout. DP.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Collected Works of John Stuart Mill - Volume VI: Essays on England, Ireland, and the Empire
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Toronto
• Publication Date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802055729
• ISBN 13: 9780802055729
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Used
• Seller catalogs:
  • Economics

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Synopsis

John Stuart Mill's political essays are a blend of the practical and the theoretical. In this volume are gathered together those in which the practical emphasis is more marked; those in which theory is predominant are found in Essays on Politics and Society, Vols XVIII and XIX of the Collected Works. The Essays on England, Ireland, and the Empire are mainly from Mill's early career as a propagandist for the Philosophic Radicals (a term he himself coined). They provide a contemporary running account of British political issues at home and abroad, with a vigorous and sometimes acerbic commentary. Historians as well as political scientists will find interesting details of the view from the radical side, and all students of Mill will welcome the further elucidation of his development. Of special interest are his precocious if tendentious attack on Hume's History of England, and his reactions to Canadian and Irish issues, the latter being the subject of a previously unpublished manuscript. The textual apparatus includes a collation of the manuscript materials and identification of Mill's quotations and references.

About the Author

One of the English-speaking world’s most influential philosophers, John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) wrote on countless topics, including logic, politics, women’s rights, legal history, medicine, and the philosophy of science.

Joseph Hamburger (1922-1997) was the Pelatiah Perit Professor Emeritus of Political and Social Science at Yale University. He was a leading authority on 19th-century British intellectual history and political theory and wrote books on James Mill and the Art of Revolution, Intellectuals in Politics, and Macaulay and the Whig Tradition.

The late John M. Robson was professor emeritus, University of Toronto, and General and Textual Editor of the Collected Works of John Stuart Mill.