Octavo, vi, viii, x, 219 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in the publisher's blue cloth bearing black lettering to the spine. Boards have slight wear including minor soiling and minimal edge wear. Text block has very slight wear with previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex, Column X. 1405835. FP New Rockville Stock.

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Title

THREE BEGINNINGS: REVOLUTION, RIGHTS AND THE LIBERAL STATE: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON THE ENGLISH, AMERICAN AND FRENCH REVOLUTIONS

Publisher

Peter Lang Publishing, Inc, New York

Publication Date

1994

Language

English

ISBN 10

0820423432

ISBN 13

9780820423432

Binding

Hardcover

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Politics, Government, and Law

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Synopsis

This collection of essays offers a comparative examination of the complex issues of sovereignty, legitimacy, and rights in the English, American, and French revolutions. A symposium of historians, political philosophers, legal, and literary scholars discuss the construction of what we now identify as the liberal, democratic, and constitutional state and debate the meaning and merits of liberalism for our own time.

About the Author

The Editors: Stephen F. Englehart and John Allphin Moore, Jr., are Professors of History at California State Polytechnic University - Pomona.
Professor Englehart, a European historian, serves as chair of the Department of History and Professor Moore, an American historian, is Director of the Douglass Adair Symposia.
The Contributors: Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr., Gerard Conac, Terence E. Marshall, Carol Blum, Lois G. Schwoerer, Charles R. Kesler, John Allphin Moore, Richard Ashcraft, Tamas Ungvari, Lee C. McDonald, John E. Murphy

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