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Hume is still the most widely discussed philosopher in the English speaking world. Important studies have been brought together here, providing an essential reference for any serious Hume scholar. Of particular importance are the volumes by Keynes...

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Within a relatively short period, Scotland produced a wide range of thinkers whose contributions to philosophy, economics, history and sociology had substantial theoretical and practical consequences for the modern world. David Hume was the key fi...

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Although J S Mill and Jeremy Bentham, the two giants of 19th century British thought, have been studied extensively, many other British philosophers of the same period have been neglected, overshadowed no doubt by the 18th century figures and the ...

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The aim of these selections is to pay tribute to the variety and originality of philosophical thought of 19th century thinkers by reprinting studies which may aid the re-discovery of some of these long-neglected traditions.

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British philosophical thought in the 18th century is dominated by the Scottish Enlightenment. This collection pays tribute to some of the lesser known English philosophers of that period to show that there was also a flourishing philosophical trad...

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Collected here are the significant philosophical works of Leslie Stephen, respected as an authority on the history of British philosophy, together with the standard biography of Maitland which has long been out of print.

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During the 18th century there was an explosion of female writing as well as a demand from women for fiction. This was predominently met by the growing number of circulating libraries and together with the rapid and rather inferior methods of produ...

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During the 18th century, Henry Home achieved fame in Britain as one of Scotland's foremost men of letters. He was distinguished as jurist, literary critic and theorist, philosopher and innovator. His writings cover a range of diverse topics from t...

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Not only do these volumes offer some of the most important collections in the history of utalitarianism, they also give a cohesive overview of Mill's views on political thought, psychology, economics, education and philosophy. Bain's biography of ...

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The second collection in the series "History of British Economic Thought" brings together six classic works in political economy by leading British writers of the 17th and 18th centuries. William Petty and John Cary were the leading infl...

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Josiah Tucker was one of the foremost thinkers of 18th century England in the field of economics, international relations, political theory and imperialism. His publications have been virtually unavailable since their original publications - these...

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In his 1913 behaviourist manifesto John B Watson urged psychologists to adopt "a unitary scheme of animal response...(that) recognizes no dividing line between man and brute." His call was heeded. By the 1930s, methodological behaviouris...

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No book in the history of British economic thought has caused a more heated and lasting controversy than Thomas Malthus' An Essay on the Principle of Population. So provocative was it deemed upon publication in 1798, that Malthus dramatically alte...

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First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Like two great fellow-Scotsmen before him, David Hume and Adam Smith, John Ramsay McCulloch was a man who came to excel in many fields. More of a philosopher and less of a theoretician than the other two, he made up for this with great practical a...

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The great outburst of literary theory in the eighteenth century was instrumental in establishing literary theory in the nineteenth century as an area of intellectual activity. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, more than anyone transformed both the status a...

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First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Rev Dr Thomas Chalmers (1780-1847), eminent churchman and political economist, was a keen social reformer and played an instrumental role in the voluntary principle in Scottish poor relief during the changes associated with industrialization and u...

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Developmental psychology emerged within the evolutionary, progressive thought of the later part of the 19th century. Concerned with processes by which new forms develop and new phenomena emerge, evolutionary thinking turned readily to the natural ...

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One major issue featured permanently in Victorian periodicals throughout the century was Britain's external economic policy. In 1815 Britain was a protectionist power - an economic cordon surrounded her empire, with her mercantile marine and naval...

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First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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This important collection of review articles makes it possible to trace the critical reputations of both major and minor British Romantic poets at the hands of first their contemporaries and then the principal Victorian critics. The collection als...

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First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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This set brings together for the first time a collection of texts that bear witness to the gradual development of linguistic studies in North America over a period of two and a half centuries. Beginning in the seventeenth century, with the first a...

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This impressive collection of turn of the century material reveals the pivotal role of the railway in the Industrial Revolution, and provides a historical background to the modern debate of privatisation. On a broader scale, the material: * demons...

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Bayle's Dictionary is one of the best known and most influential works of the eighteenth century. Banned in Catholic France on first publication in 1697 it became a bestseller and ran into several editions and translations. Its merciless scientifi...

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This set traces the development of sociological theories of social class in Europe and North America in the first half of the twentieth century, defining and highlighting the role it plays in the divisions within industrial society of the time. Th...

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Edwin Chadwick (1800-1890) is most famous for his contributions to the public health movement of the nineteenth century where his 1842 Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population highlighted the unsanitary conditions that prevaile...

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This set covers a century's literature on discovery in chemistry, incorporating both classic works by eminent chemists (including Faraday and Boyle) and a selection of journal articles which present science to a general readership. It covers all a...

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