| Rethinking the Politics of Commercial Society: The Edinburgh Review 1802-1832 Contributor(s): Fontana, Biancamaria (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521303354 ISBN-13: 9780521303354 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 1985 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Political - Business & Economics | Economic History |
| Dewey: 330.094 |
| LCCN: 85007760 |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6" W x 9" (1.24 lbs) 268 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book explores the sources of modern British liberalism through a study of the Edinburgh Review, the most influential and controversial early nineteenth-century British periodical. Founded by a group of young Scottish intellectuals in 1802, the Review served as a principal channel through which the ideas of the Scottish Enlightenment gained wider currency, and did much to popularize the doctrines of economic and political reform. As Dr Fontana shows in this lucid and keen analysis, the first thirty years in the life of the Review clearly display the new social and economic problems confronting European society in the aftermath of the French Revolution. |